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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. What need did King address in his speech, "Prayer Pilgrimage"?
(a) The need for leadership.
(b) The need for equlity.
(c) The need for power.
(d) The need for courage.

2. From where did Martin Luther King, Jr. derive the expression the "American Dream"?
(a) The Bible and Gospel songs.
(b) The Constitution and the Koran.
(c) The Declaration of Independence and the Bible.
(d) His teachers at school.

3. What did Malcolm copy from to teach himself to read and write?
(a) The Koran.
(b) Shakespeare's plays.
(c) The dictionary.
(d) The Bible.

4. What was the name of the English teacher who suggested that Malcolm work in carpentry and not law?
(a) Ostrowski.
(b) DuBois.
(c) Smythe.
(d) Mueller.

5. What was the name of Malcolm X's wife?
(a) Beatrice.
(b) Ilyasah.
(c) Betty.
(d) Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did King make his first major speech to the nation?

2. After how many years of "verbal sparring" did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet?

3. What city was known as the "Cradle of the Confederacy"?

4. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act passed?

5. What did Malcolm claim that white man had done to blacks because of the "satanic nature of the white man"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the issues that nationalists faced?

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

3. What was the difference in the way that whites and blacks were addressed during Martin's youth?

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

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

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

7. What did black leaders believe was necessary to gain "political and economic benefits"?

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

9. What are the two distinct religious traditions in the African-American community?

10. Why was the North considered "Canaan"?

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