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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who made the following statement: "If King loses, worse leaders are going to take his place"?
(a) Elijah Muhammad.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Malcolm.

2. What names did King omit from his jailhouse diary regarding his arrest in Albany?
(a) The names Dr. Anderson and Ralph Abernathy.
(b) The names of the women arrested.
(c) The names of Rosa Parks and Malcom X.
(d) The names of Slater King and Rev. Ben Gay.

3. Who did Malcolm claim God had "raised up...as the one to warn white America" in many of his speeches?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Elijah Muhammad.
(c) Himself.
(d) The black initiative.

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

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

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

7. According to Malcolm, whose job was "passing on black cultural traditions to the children"?
(a) The neighborhood's.
(b) Women's.
(c) Society's.
(d) Men's.

8. According to Cone, what did Malcolm alienate in Chapter 6?
(a) Christianity.
(b) America.
(c) Promise.
(d) Faith.

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

10. What television production portrayed the Black Muslims as a black nationalist hate group in 1959?
(a) "A Twisted Definition of Hate."
(b) "Stormfront."
(c) "The Weather Underground Documentary."
(d) "The Hate That Hate Produced."

11. Where did Malcolm claim his view of women came from? (Chapter 10)
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Nation of Islam.
(c) His mother.
(d) Society.

12. What did Malcolm compare himself to when he spoke of his sinking to "the very bottom of the American white man's society"?
(a) A hyena.
(b) A slug.
(c) A vulture.
(d) A lion.

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

14. Who influenced Malcolm's receptiveness to socialism?
(a) Marcus Garvey.
(b) Lewis Woodson.
(c) Franz Fanon.
(d) Kwame Nkrumah.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Malcolm's comment on which assassination caused his break from the Nation of Islam?

2. What bill was passed on August 6, 1965?

3. According to King, what happened when he watched Malcolm on television? (Chapter 9)

4. What did Malcolm call the black leaders that accepted financial support from liberal whites?

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

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