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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to King, what happened when he watched Malcolm on television? (Chapter 9)
(a) He would fail to identify with him.
(b) He would fail to see his point.
(c) He would turn off the television.
(d) He would get a twinge of hate.

2. Who made the following statement: "But the danger is that white people use King"?
(a) Elijah Muhammad.
(b) Louis Farikan.
(c) Malcolm.
(d) Wallace-Elijah's son.

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

4. 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 Slater King and Rev. Ben Gay.
(c) The names of the women arrested.
(d) The names of Rosa Parks and Malcom X.

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

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

7. What did both Malcolm and his father share enthusiasm for according to "Home to Allah, Home to Blackness"?
(a) The faith in God.
(b) The Nation of Islam.
(c) A love for self.
(d) Marcus Garvey's "back to Africa" movement.

8. What influenced Malcolm's "conception of the nightmare"?
(a) The judgement of God.
(b) Slave narratives.
(c) W.E.B. DuBois.
(d) The abduction of African slaves.

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

10. Who said, "I am for truth, no matter who tells it"?
(a) Elijah Muhammad.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Louis Farikan.

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

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

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

14. According to King, "Nobody could ride your back unless" it is what?
(a) Bent.
(b) Broken.
(c) Harnessed.
(d) Tired.

15. Who said, "Sometimes I have dared to dream"?
(a) Gandhi.
(b) Martin Luther King, Sr.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Malcolm X.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the 1965 riots in the Los Angeles ghetto, how many "Americas" did Martin Luther King, Jr. come to realize there were?

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

3. What did Cone say were the "outward signs of an inward transformation"? (Chapter 11)

4. What report claimed that the "black man was victimized more than black women" and the black man had to "step forward" while the black woman had to "step backward"?

5. Who did Malcolm claim God had "raised up...as the one to warn white America" in many of his speeches?

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