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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 did Malcolm call the black leaders that accepted financial support from liberal whites?

2. Where did Malcolm claim his view of women came from? (Chapter 10)

3. What march did King believe was the "final lap of a freedom march that had started in Montgomery ten years earlier"?

4. What influenced Malcolm's "conception of the nightmare"?

5. What did blacks believe having faith in would deliver them from the KKK and other white hate groups?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What two books began black youth's movement away from nonviolent actions as the "weapon" for social change?

3. Unlike Malcolm, why did King believe in whites?

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

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

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

7. According to Malcolm, what problem did "color" have on the self-hate that most blacks held?

8. What was King surprised to find out about urban youth's mindset regarding the civil rights movement following the signing of the Voting Rights Bill?

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

10. Where did Malcolm derive his view of women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Readers are shown the very different ways that King and Malcolm X were brought up. King was surrounded by core Christian values, while Malcolm X was the product of turmoil. How do you think their different upbringings helped to form them as leaders, and therefore the movements, given they were both fighting for the same thing?

Essay Topic 3

Cone sets readers up to ponder a question from the first time the book is laid in their hands. Therefore, was the civil rights movement an American Dream or an American Nightmare? Cite specific examples from the text to support your response.

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