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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the Dred Scott Decision made?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1857.

2. What nickname did Martin Luther King, Sr. have?
(a) Daddy King.
(b) Daddy Senior.
(c) Daddy Martin.
(d) Father King.

3. Who was the author and civil rights activist that spoke of "twoness"?
(a) James Meredith.
(b) Dorothy Height.
(c) John O. Killens.
(d) W.E.B. DuBois.

4. Where did Cone say that the understanding of King's faith and theology began?
(a) As a response to a hate crime conducted in the Supreme Court.
(b) During the Montgomery Bus crisis.
(c) During the creation of the ghettos.
(d) During the riots in New York.

5. In what year did "sit-ins" become an action used by the civil rights movement?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1967.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Malcolm call Martin Luther King, Jr. because of the whites naming him as the "leader of the blacks"?

2. What was Malcolm X's birth name?

3. Whom did the Introduction name as the most persuasive person in pointing out the hypocrisies of the Declaration of Independence?

4. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. first visit Montgomery, Alabama?

5. What soda company used King's use of dreaming in their advertising?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where and when did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X first meet?

2. How did Frederick Douglass use the Constitution to declare his rights as an American?

3. What did the concept of unity mean to Malcolm?

4. Discuss Malcolm's youth.

5. What were the problems associated with the media's portrayal of King and Malcolm as adversaries?

6. What metaphor did King use to show the importance of "wholehearted work"?

7. Why was the North considered "Canaan"?

8. What were the problems associated with Du Bois' theory of "twoness"?

9. What were the five objectives that King stated led to the redemption of blacks?

10. How are the two distinct religious traditions in African-American communities linked?

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