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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which Los Angeles ghetto did 14,000 National Guardsmen arrive at to restore order in 1965?
(a) Watts.
(b) Pacoima.
(c) Pico-Union.
(d) Compton.

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

3. What leaders did King find more interest in regarding their influence on the change of world politics? (Chapter 9)
(a) African leaders.
(b) South American leaders.
(c) Russian leaders.
(d) European leaders.

4. Who did Martin Luther King, Jr. quote when he said, "My feets is tired but my soul is rested"?
(a) Sister Pollard.
(b) Sister Bester.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Betsy Johnson.

5. 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 lion.
(b) A slug.
(c) A vulture.
(d) A hyena.

6. What march did King believe was the "final lap of a freedom march that had started in Montgomery ten years earlier"?
(a) The Washington, D.C. march.
(b) The Selma march.
(c) The Charleston march.
(d) The Alabama march.

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

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

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

10. 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!"

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

12. Malcolm's comment on which assassination caused his break from the Nation of Islam?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s.
(b) Patrice Lumumba's.
(c) Lincoln's.
(d) Kennedy's.

13. 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) Himself.
(c) Elijah Muhammad.
(d) The black initiative.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Henry X, the Black Muslim minister, say that Malcolm had abandoned to become a "political sociologist"?

2. Who said, "Sometimes I have dared to dream"?

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

4. Who said, "I am for truth, no matter who tells it"?

5. According to Cone, what limitation did King and Malcolm share in regard to being a problem with racism?

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