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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Malcolm claim was "seventh heaven" in Chapter 2?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) New York City.
(c) Harlem.
(d) Roxbury.

2. How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
(a) 198.
(b) 381.
(c) 217.
(d) 436.

3. What did Peter Bailey call Malcolm X?
(a) "Master Teacher."
(b) "Teacher X."
(c) "Prophet X."
(d) "Father X."

4. What was the "secret church of slaves" named?
(a) "Invisible instutition."
(b) "The Sacred."
(c) "The NAACP."
(d) "The Nation."

5. According to Cone, who was the only person to point out the "past and current injustices of American society in relation to its inhabitants of African descent"?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

6. What did Malcolm X claim he was first?
(a) African.
(b) A man.
(c) American.
(d) Black.

7. How tall was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
(a) Six feet three inches.
(b) Six feet four inches.
(c) Five feet eleven inches.
(d) Five feet eight inches.

8. Who was Malcolm's focus audience when he spoke?
(a) Whites.
(b) Governmental leaders.
(c) Blacks.
(d) Racists.

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

10. Who was the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Dexter Probst.
(d) Charlie Rose.

11. What was the North described as during the "antebellum" period?
(a) Eden.
(b) Heaven.
(c) White.
(d) Canaan.

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

13. In what year was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1929.

14. How many objectives did King announce for the role of blacks in the movement?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

15. What did Malcolm claim that white man had done to blacks because of the "satanic nature of the white man"?
(a) Stripped them of their freedoms.
(b) Lied to them.
(c) Dehumanized them.
(d) Brainwashed them.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Martin Luther King, Jr. give his "Autobiography of Religious Development" sermon?

2. By what title did King's admirers frequently refer to him?

3. What did the person who called King after a steering committee meeting threaten to do if King did not leave town in three days?

4. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act passed?

5. To which biblical person was Martin Luther King, Jr. compared?

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