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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 did Martin Luther King, Jr. first visit Montgomery, Alabama?

2. What religious affiliation was Malcolm X aligned with?

3. Whom did the Introduction name as the most persuasive person in pointing out the hypocrisies of the Declaration of Independence?

4. When was the NAACP founded?

5. How many demands did the black community make of the Montgomery Bus company to stop the boycott?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What were the issues that nationalists faced?

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

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

7. What happened to Malcolm's parents during his youth?

8. What were the problems associated with the media's portrayal of King and Malcolm as adversaries?

9. To whom was Malcolm a speaker to the truth regarding black and white relations in America?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Based on the information in the book, who do you think had the greatest impact on the civil rights or black freedom movement? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The title of Chapter 6 is "White Man's Heaven Is a Black Man's Hell." How did the author's belief and the history that he provided readers with regarding Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. support this ideology?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the different representations of both Malcolm and King by the media. How did the media describe both men? How did these representations separate the men in the eyes of Americans?

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