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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year was the Dred Scott Decision made?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1911.

3. What was the name of the weekly column that Malcolm wrote for African-American newspapers?
(a) "God's Angry Men."
(b) "The American Nightmare."
(c) "One Voice."
(d) "Of What I Stand For."

4. What did Malcolm copy from to teach himself to read and write?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Koran.
(c) The dictionary.
(d) Shakespeare's plays.

5. What did the person who called King after a steering committee meeting threaten to do if King did not leave town in three days?
(a) Bomb King's next rally.
(b) Kill King's wife and daughter.
(c) Kill King and blow up his home.
(d) Blow up King's church.

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

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

8. In what year did "sit-ins" become an action used by the civil rights movement?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1960.

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

10. At what age did Martin Luther King, Jr. attend Morehouse College?
(a) 15.
(b) 19.
(c) 17.
(d) 18.

11. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. first visit Montgomery, Alabama?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1954.

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

13. What need did King address in his speech, "Prayer Pilgrimage"?
(a) The need for courage.
(b) The need for leadership.
(c) The need for equlity.
(d) The need for power.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 3, what did Cone say most people thought King centered his thoughts and actions upon?

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

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

5. How many demands did the black community make of the Montgomery Bus company to stop the boycott?

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