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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 Malcolm call the black leaders that accepted financial support from liberal whites?
(a) "Puppies."
(b) "Racists."
(c) "Puppets."
(d) "Slaves."

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

3. What was the central theme for both King and Malcolm in the black freedom struggle? (Chapter 9)
(a) "Honor in America."
(b) "Respect as human beings."
(c) "Stopping the blood flow."
(d) "Freedom from their chains."

4. What title did Muhammad bestow on Malcolm in 1963?
(a) "Commander."
(b) "National Minister."
(c) "Messenger."
(d) "Prophet."

5. Where did Malcolm claim his view of women came from? (Chapter 10)
(a) The Bible.
(b) His mother.
(c) The Nation of Islam.
(d) Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?

2. 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"?

3. Malcolm's comment on which assassination caused his break from the Nation of Islam?

4. What did Malcolm compare himself to when he spoke of his sinking to "the very bottom of the American white man's society"?

5. During his June 1954 address in Harlem, what did Malcolm claim that the "white man" has brainwashed "us black people" to look upon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What limited both Malcolm and King from recognizing the connection between racism and sexism?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What was Malcolm's "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech an initial attempt for him to do?

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

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