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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. What book in the Bible states, "We are all one in Christ"?

2. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. first visit Montgomery, Alabama?

3. What governor was stated as a "camouflaged" racist in Chapter 3?

4. How many objectives did King announce for the role of blacks in the movement?

5. After how many years of "verbal sparring" did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What meaning did the meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. have on the black freedom movement?

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

4. How are the two distinct religious traditions in African-American communities linked?

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

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

7. Discuss Malcolm's time at school.

8. What metaphor did King use to show the importance of "wholehearted work"?

9. What happened to King, at the age of six, concerning the "ugly manifestations of segregation"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Based upon the facts that Cone presented, do you think that racism today is different from racism from the time of King and Malcolm? How? What are the similarities?

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

Discuss King's five objectives. What are they? Why did King see them as important? What were they meant to do for those involved in the civil rights movement?

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