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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 title did Muhammad bestow on Malcolm in 1963?
(a) "National Minister."
(b) "Commander."
(c) "Messenger."
(d) "Prophet."

2. To what did Malcolm compare America's downfall in Chapter 6?
(a) The end of slavery.
(b) Lincoln's death.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Atlantis.

3. Malcolm's comment on which assassination caused his break from the Nation of Islam?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s.
(b) Kennedy's.
(c) Patrice Lumumba's.
(d) Lincoln's.

4. Malcolm taught the "true Islamic faith", one upheld by Eastern Islamic teachings. To whom did he make it applicable?
(a) Black Americans.
(b) American black men.
(c) Westernized Islamics.
(d) Eastern blacks.

5. From whose teachings did Martin Luther King, Jr. learn of successful nonviolent actions?
(a) John Stewert Mill.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Gaius.
(d) Gandhi.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Malcolm X born?

2. According to Chapter 3, what did Cone say most people thought King centered his thoughts and actions upon?

3. What "messiah" was Malcolm X portrayed as?

4. What was King's favorite image used to show the importance of being the best in your profession?

5. What was Malcolm X's birth name?

(see the answer key)

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