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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. At what age did King join the Ebenezer Baptist Church?

2. What "messiah" was Malcolm X portrayed as?

3. What was the name of the English teacher who suggested that Malcolm work in carpentry and not law?

4. What was the North described as during the "antebellum" period?

5. Which U.S. President did King claim would not speak in major Southern cities?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did King believe was necessary for all people to be free in America?

5. What were the issues that nationalists faced?

6. According to Cone, what did the black middle class believe in?

7. What were the five objectives that King stated led to the redemption of blacks?

8. Why was the North considered "Canaan"?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Malcolm had his own five objectives: unity, self-knowledge, self-love, self-defense, and separation. Discuss Malcolm's objectives. Why did Malcolm see them as important? Why did Malcolm see these objectives as the path to black freedom?

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