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

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

3. What did Malcolm X claim he was first?
(a) American.
(b) A man.
(c) African.
(d) Black.

4. In what year did Martin Delany write "The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of Colored People of the United States"?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1976.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the weekly column that Malcolm wrote for African-American newspapers?

2. By what title did King's admirers frequently refer to him?

3. How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last?

4. From where did Martin Luther King, Jr. derive the expression the "American Dream"?

5. In what year did "sit-ins" become an action used by the civil rights movement?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did King believe was necessary for all people to be free in America?

2. Why was the North considered "Canaan"?

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

4. What happened to Malcolm's parents during his youth?

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

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

7. What was Malcolm's idea of justice?

8. Why did Malcolm state, "While King was having a dream, the rest of us Negros are having a nightmare"?

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

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

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