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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 bill was passed on August 6, 1965?
(a) The Equal Protection Bill.
(b) The Equal Rights Bill.
(c) The Voting Rights Bill.
(d) Jim Crow Bills.

2. What leaders did King find more interest in regarding their influence on the change of world politics? (Chapter 9)
(a) European leaders.
(b) South American leaders.
(c) African leaders.
(d) Russian leaders.

3. What television production portrayed the Black Muslims as a black nationalist hate group in 1959?
(a) "The Hate That Hate Produced."
(b) "Stormfront."
(c) "A Twisted Definition of Hate."
(d) "The Weather Underground Documentary."

4. According to Malcolm, whose job was "passing on black cultural traditions to the children"?
(a) The neighborhood's.
(b) Men's.
(c) Women's.
(d) Society's.

5. Who made the following statement found in Chapter 10: "You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is be an intelligent human being"?
(a) John Stuart Mill.
(b) W.E.B. DuBois.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Malcolm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who served as the "acting director" of the SCLC although most of the male preachers found she did not "exhibit the 'right attitude"?

2. What influenced Malcolm's "conception of the nightmare"?

3. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?

4. How did Cone characterize the media's representations of the "black self" in the 1950s?

5. What magazine's interview with Martin Luther King, Jr. seemed to speak to Martin's dismissal of Malcolm as a "significant, creative black leader"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Americans remember Martin Luther King, Jr. today?

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

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

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

5. What did Cone decide was the greatest limitation for both King and Malcolm?

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

7. According to Malcolm, what problem did "color" have on the self-hate that most blacks held?

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

9. According to Cone, how did King proclaim and live the American dream?

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

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