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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: Nothing but Men.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the 15-year-old high school student arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger before Rosa Parks did so?
(a) Claudette Colvin.
(b) Trunda Blase.
(c) Deborah Miller.
(d) Margie Mathers.

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

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

4. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act passed?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1903.

5. Who was the founder of the Nation of Islam?
(a) Malcolm Little.
(b) Elijah Muhammad.
(c) Wallace D. Ford.
(d) Elijah Ford Little.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did King make his first major speech to the nation?

2. Who was the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott?

3. Who said, "Sometimes I have dared to dream"?

4. In what year did Malcolm convert to Islam?

5. What animal did Malcolm compare blacks to in Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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