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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 did Cone say African Americans needed instead of more churches? (Chapter 11)
(a) Justice.
(b) Honor.
(c) Love.
(d) Pride.

2. Which U.S. President refused to put voting rights up to Congress after King asked him to?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Johnson.

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

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

5. 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"?
(a) Mathers.
(b) Moynihan.
(c) Suanters.
(d) De'Leka.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cone in Chapter 8, what separated King from Malcolm?

2. What did Cone claim was created for "the specific needs of blacks" in Chapter 6?

3. What did both Malcolm and his father share enthusiasm for according to "Home to Allah, Home to Blackness"?

4. What was the nickname for the infamous March 7th attack at the Edmund Pettus Bridge?

5. Who wrote "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the imagery of the "bullet" and the "ballot" represent for Malcolm?

2. What was the official reason that was issued regarding Malcolm's removal from the Nation of Islam?

3. Unlike Malcolm, why did King believe in whites?

4. Why did Malcolm find it necessary to address Third World nations regarding civil inequalities?

5. How did King respond to watching Malcolm on television?

6. What was the difference between Northern and Southern blacks?

7. According to Malcolm, what are the similarities between "integration" and "separation"?

8. Why did Cone state that the break between Malcolm and Muhammad "could not be avoided"?

9. According to Cone, why was Malcolm's faith harder to understand and communicate to the majority of Americans?

10. Why did Malcolm feel that Christian values and beliefs were a contradiction to the faith itself?

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