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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. Who did Malcolm X claim killed his father?
(a) The Ku Klux Klan.
(b) The Black Legionnaires.
(c) America.
(d) The White Supremacists.

2. In what year was Malcolm X paroled from Charlestown State Prison?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1947.

3. After how many years of "verbal sparring" did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet?
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

4. What need did King address in his speech, "Prayer Pilgrimage"?
(a) The need for leadership.
(b) The need for courage.
(c) The need for power.
(d) The need for equlity.

5. What did both Malcolm and his father share enthusiasm for according to "Home to Allah, Home to Blackness"?
(a) Marcus Garvey's "back to Africa" movement.
(b) The faith in God.
(c) A love for self.
(d) The Nation of Islam.

Short Answer Questions

1. Malcolm's comment on which assassination caused his break from the Nation of Islam?

2. How many people marched on Washington, D.C. on August 28th?

3. What book in the Bible states, "We are all one in Christ"?

4. Who did Martin Luther King, Jr. quote when he said, "My feets is tired but my soul is rested"?

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

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