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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What influenced Malcolm's "conception of the nightmare"?
(a) Slave narratives.
(b) The abduction of African slaves.
(c) W.E.B. DuBois.
(d) The judgement of God.

2. What did Cone claim was the "sole preoccupation" of the poor women of color? (Conclusion)
(a) Finding work.
(b) Finding food and shelter.
(c) Finding a husband.
(d) Finding equality.

3. What report claimed that the "black man was victimized more than black women" and the black man had to "step forward" while the black woman had to "step backward"?
(a) Suanters.
(b) Mathers.
(c) Moynihan.
(d) De'Leka.

4. What kind of resources did the use of white, liberal Protestant religion offer to King in regard to the movement?
(a) Spiritual resources.
(b) Intellectual resources.
(c) Faith-bound resources.
(d) Common Christian resources.

5. According to Malcolm in an address to African-Americans, "All of us are black first" and what second?
(a) Everything else.
(b) Human beings.
(c) Men.
(d) American.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made the following statement found in Chapter 10: "The Negro in this country...has never been able to be a man"?

2. What did Malcolm claim people needed in order to "go[ing] anywhere in this world"?

3. To which biblical person was Malcolm X compared?

4. In which Los Angeles ghetto did 14,000 National Guardsmen arrive at to restore order in 1965?

5. How many years did Malcolm X spend with Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam?

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