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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who described Malcolm X as "the spokesman of bitter racism"?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The Chronicle.
(c) The Southern Reporter.
(d) The New Yorker.

2. According to Chapter 3, what did Cone say most people thought King centered his thoughts and actions upon?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Pride.
(c) Love.
(d) Unity.

3. How many demands did the black community make of the Montgomery Bus company to stop the boycott?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

4. What nickname did Martin Luther King, Sr. have?
(a) Daddy Senior.
(b) Daddy King.
(c) Daddy Martin.
(d) Father King.

5. According to Cone, who did blacks in the ghettos turn to for hope?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Elijah Muhammad.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

6. Who was considered the most effective missionary of the Nation of Islam?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Wallace D. Fard Muhammad.
(c) Louis Farrakhan.
(d) Elijah Muhammad.

7. Where did King make his first major speech to the nation?
(a) The Washington Monument.
(b) The lawn of the White House.
(c) The Library of Congress.
(d) The Lincoln Memorial.

8. What did Malcolm call Martin Luther King, Jr. because of the whites naming him as the "leader of the blacks"?
(a) "A religious Uncle Tom."
(b) "A hater of the black movement."
(c) "A traitor."
(d) "A misnomer."

9. Which U.S. President did King claim would not speak in major Southern cities?
(a) Ford.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Kennedy.

10. On what date did Martin Luther King, Jr. give his famous "I Have A Dream" speech?
(a) September 14, 1954.
(b) July 1, 1984.
(c) August 28, 1963.
(d) October 26, 1975.

11. How tall was Malcolm X?
(a) Six feet three inches.
(b) Five feet ten inches.
(c) Six feet nine inches.
(d) Five feet four inches.

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

13. What was the South described as during the "antebellum" period?
(a) Backwards.
(b) Hell.
(c) Uneducated.
(d) Egypt.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did John Shabazz compare Malcolm X?

2. In what year was the Dred Scott Decision made?

3. What magazine called Malcolm X "an unashamed demagogue"?

4. What was the name of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s wife?

5. What governor was stated as a "camouflaged" racist in Chapter 3?

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