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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What image did Cone claim created more harm than help in black churches? (Chapter 11)
(a) "A white Jesus."
(b) "A masculine and white ruled theology."
(c) "A white Bible."
(d) "A white history of religion."

2. Who made the following statement found in Chapter 10: "The Negro in this country...has never been able to be a man"?
(a) Elijah Muhammad.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Malcolm.

3. To which biblical person was Malcolm X compared?
(a) John.
(b) Aaron.
(c) Judas.
(d) Peter.

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

5. Who was the founder of the Nation of Islam?
(a) Wallace D. Ford.
(b) Elijah Ford Little.
(c) Elijah Muhammad.
(d) Malcolm Little.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What did Cone claim was created for "the specific needs of blacks" in Chapter 6?
(a) The Southern Baptist faith.
(b) The Nation of Islam.
(c) The CORE.
(d) The NAACP.

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

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

15. 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 Dr. Anderson and Ralph Abernathy.
(d) The names of the women arrested.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. For how many days did Muhammad silence Malcolm for his comments on the assassination that he had been forbidden to speak about?

3. What did Cone say African Americans needed instead of more churches? (Chapter 11)

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

5. What did Cone say was a "danger that pervades the leadership expectations of the African-American community"?

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