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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Shattered Dreams (1965-68).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Malcolm copy from to teach himself to read and write?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The dictionary.
(c) Shakespeare's plays.
(d) The Koran.

2. In what year was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1929.

3. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. claim to be "first and foremost" in his 1961 "Redbook" interview?
(a) An activist.
(b) A black.
(c) A man.
(d) A minister.

4. To which biblical person was Malcolm X compared?
(a) Aaron.
(b) Peter.
(c) John.
(d) Judas.

5. Who said, "Sometimes I have dared to dream"?
(a) Martin Luther King, Sr.
(b) Gandhi.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Malcolm X.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Malcolm compare himself to when he spoke of his sinking to "the very bottom of the American white man's society"?

2. Who was Malcolm's focus audience when he spoke?

3. What were the two "great resistance traditions in African-American history" that the meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. provided to the black freedom movement?

4. To whom did Malcolm gravitate towards after being ostracized from the Nation of Islam?

5. The Introduction claim that "blacks are Americans," given that they arrived before whom?

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