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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. When was the NAACP founded?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1909.

2. What was the North described as during the "antebellum" period?
(a) Eden.
(b) Canaan.
(c) White.
(d) Heaven.

3. What did Malcolm call Martin Luther King, Jr. because of the whites naming him as the "leader of the blacks"?
(a) "A religious Uncle Tom."
(b) "A traitor."
(c) "A hater of the black movement."
(d) "A misnomer."

4. The Introduction claim that "blacks are Americans," given that they arrived before whom?
(a) Pilgrims.
(b) The English.
(c) The French.
(d) Indians.

5. How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
(a) 198.
(b) 436.
(c) 217.
(d) 381.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott?

2. What nickname did Martin Luther King, Sr. have?

3. According to Chapter 3, what did Cone say most people thought King centered his thoughts and actions upon?

4. Who was Malcolm's focus audience when he spoke?

5. On what date did Malcolm X give the speech that began, "No, I'm not an American"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Malcolm portrayed as a "messiah of hate"?

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

3. According to Cone, what did the black middle class believe in?

4. What happened to King, at the age of six, concerning the "ugly manifestations of segregation"?

5. What meaning did the meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. have on the black freedom movement?

6. Why was the North considered "Canaan"?

7. What was Malcolm's idea of justice?

8. Discuss Malcolm's time at school.

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

10. What three factors formed the context for King's idea of the "American Dream"?

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