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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?

2. To whom did John Shabazz compare Malcolm X?

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

4. When was the infamous Hayes Compromise made?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Malcolm's time at school.

2. How did Malcolm justify his stand that blacks should not integrate with whites?

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

4. What was Malcolm's idea of justice?

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

6. What were the issues that nationalists faced?

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

8. Why did King realize the problem with black's self-respect?

9. In accordance with the black freedom movement, what two tasks did King believe were necessary to speak to whites about?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although both Malcolm and King's lives ended long before they could see their "dreams" come true and "nightmares" end, both left behind a legacy that will be remembered by most Americans. How did both Malcolm and King make their marks on the elimination of racism in America?

Essay Topic 2

In Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mind, and the minds of many others, how did the Declaration of Independence speak to the Constitutional freedoms that blacks should be able to possess?

Essay Topic 3

Cone dedicated an entire section of his book to the sexism that existed within the black freedom movement. How did Cone justify Malcolm and King's realized, or unrealized, sexist stand that they took against black women?

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