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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what type of store did Martin Luther King, Jr. and his father experience racism together?
(a) A general store.
(b) A shoe store.
(c) A book store.
(d) A grocery store.

2. Who did Malcolm X claim the "real criminal" was in his address in Harlem on August 10, 1963?
(a) The "white race".
(b) The "white man who poses as a liberal".
(c) The men who "chained the slaves in Africa".
(d) The "Government of the US in whole".

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

4. At what age did King join the Ebenezer Baptist Church?
(a) 16.
(b) 11.
(c) 5.
(d) 13.

5. What were the two "great resistance traditions in African-American history" that the meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. provided to the black freedom movement?
(a) Promise and freedom.
(b) The American Dream and The American Nightmare.
(c) Hope and vitality.
(d) Integrationism and nationalism.

6. What was Malcolm's nickname in prison?
(a) Pain.
(b) Judas.
(c) Satan.
(d) Cain.

7. Who gave Malcolm the name "Malcolm X"?
(a) Louis Farrakhan.
(b) Wallace Fard Muhammad.
(c) Warith Deen Muhammad.
(d) Elijah Muhammad.

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

9. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. become pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1954.

10. Whom did the Introduction claim was the greatest abolitionist since the founding of the republic?
(a) Charlie Rose.
(b) Bruce Klunder.
(c) Robert Zellner.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

11. In what grade did Malcolm X's education end?
(a) 11th.
(b) 5th.
(c) 8th.
(d) 6th.

12. What church was King's father a minister of?
(a) Ebenezer Baptist Church.
(b) South Central Baptist Church.
(c) Montgomery First Baptist Church.
(d) First Baptist Church.

13. What magazine called Malcolm X "an unashamed demagogue"?
(a) Newsweek.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) The Washington Times.
(d) Time.

14. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. claim to be "first and foremost" in his 1961 "Redbook" interview?
(a) An activist.
(b) A minister.
(c) A man.
(d) A black.

15. Where did Cone say that the understanding of King's faith and theology began?
(a) During the Montgomery Bus crisis.
(b) During the creation of the ghettos.
(c) During the riots in New York.
(d) As a response to a hate crime conducted in the Supreme Court.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Malcolm call Martin Luther King, Jr. because of the whites naming him as the "leader of the blacks"?

2. What German term did King use to refer to his belief that "the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness [we have] cosmic companionship"?

3. What was the name of Malcolm X's wife?

4. On what date did Martin Luther King, Jr. give his famous "I Have A Dream" speech?

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

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