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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Malcolm consider socialism to be an alternative for?
(a) Marxism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Taoism.
(d) Nationalism.

2. How many people marched on Washington, D.C. on August 28th?
(a) 90,000.
(b) 175,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 500,000.

3. Who made the following statement found in Chapter 11: "Freedom is not free"?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

4. What two people's ideas did King infuse in regard to nonviolence and spirituality? (Chapter 9)
(a) Orville and Gandhi.
(b) Gandhi and Thoreau.
(c) Martin Luther King, Sr. and Mills.
(d) DuBois and Jesus.

5. Who wrote "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"?
(a) Elijah Muhammad.
(b) W.E.B. DuBois.
(c) Ralph Abernathy.
(d) Emily Masterson.

6. To what did Malcolm compare America's downfall in Chapter 6?
(a) The end of slavery.
(b) Atlantis.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Lincoln's death.

7. What title did Muhammad bestow on Malcolm in 1963?
(a) "Commander."
(b) "National Minister."
(c) "Prophet."
(d) "Messenger."

8. According to Cone, to whom was Malcolm's most important audience during his last year?
(a) Black Americans.
(b) Black men of America.
(c) Third world nations.
(d) African Americans.

9. What was considered Malcolm's most repeated and controversial claim?
(a) "White America will pay!"
(b) "White America will fall!"
(c) "White America lied!"
(d) "White America is doomed!"

10. During his June 1954 address in Harlem, what did Malcolm claim that the "white man" has brainwashed "us black people" to look upon?
(a) "A blondhaired, blue-eyed Jesus."
(b) "A racist Jesus."
(c) "An idol that the black community could not identify with."
(d) "A white Jesus."

11. How did Cone characterize the media's representations of the "black self" in the 1950s?
(a) Demeaning.
(b) Narrow.
(c) Meaningless.
(d) Negative.

12. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1963.

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

14. How did Malcolm publicly characterize the assassination that he had been forbidden to speak about?
(a) "The wrath of God showing his face."
(b) "The rage of blacks entering Stage One."
(c) "Chickens coming home to roost."
(d) "The tortoise beating the hare."

15. According to Cone, who should blacks whom are proud of their African heritage thank? (Chapter 11)
(a) W.E.B. DuBois.
(b) Anthony Davis.
(c) Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
(d) Malcolm X.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made the following statement: "Yes, I am personally the victim of deferred dreams, of blasted hopes"?

2. What was the central theme for both King and Malcolm in the black freedom struggle? (Chapter 9)

3. According to Cone in Chapter 8, what separated King from Malcolm?

4. What was the "most important similarity between Martin and Malcolm"?

5. According to Malcolm, whose job was "passing on black cultural traditions to the children"?

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