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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. From where did Martin Luther King, Jr. derive the expression the "American Dream"?
(a) The Declaration of Independence and the Bible.
(b) The Constitution and the Koran.
(c) The Bible and Gospel songs.
(d) His teachers at school.

2. In which Los Angeles ghetto did 14,000 National Guardsmen arrive at to restore order in 1965?
(a) Watts.
(b) Pacoima.
(c) Compton.
(d) Pico-Union.

3. What soda company used King's use of dreaming in their advertising?
(a) Coca-Cola.
(b) Pepsi.
(c) Tab.
(d) Royal Cola.

4. What was Malcolm X's birth name?
(a) Malcolm Drake.
(b) Malcolm Black.
(c) Malcolm Smith.
(d) Malcolm Little.

5. What "messiah" was Malcolm X portrayed as?
(a) "Messiah of power."
(b) "Messiah of indifference."
(c) "Messiah of blackness."
(d) "Messiah of hate."

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Malcolm X paroled from Charlestown State Prison?

2. Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet for the first and only time in their lives?

3. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. believe was the "last major barrier to black freedom"?

4. What was the central theme for both King and Malcolm in the black freedom struggle? (Chapter 9)

5. Who made the following statement: "Yes, I am personally the victim of deferred dreams, of blasted hopes"?

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