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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 Malcolm X assassinated?
2. What did Malcolm claim people needed in order to "go[ing] anywhere in this world"?
3. Who said, "Sometimes I have dared to dream"?
4. How did Malcolm publicly characterize the assassination that he had been forbidden to speak about?
5. What march did King believe was the "final lap of a freedom march that had started in Montgomery ten years earlier"?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. According to Malcolm, what are the similarities between "integration" and "separation"?
3. According to Cone, why was Malcolm's faith harder to understand and communicate to the majority of Americans?
4. What did Cone decide was the greatest limitation for both King and Malcolm?
5. How do Americans remember Martin Luther King, Jr. today?
6. What was the difference between Northern and Southern blacks?
7. What was Malcolm's "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech an initial attempt for him to do?
8. According to Malcolm, what problem did "color" have on the self-hate that most blacks held?
9. What limited both Malcolm and King from recognizing the connection between racism and sexism?
10. Although Malcolm did not finish the ninth grade, he valued education. Why did Malcolm value education?
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
Describe the different influences that religion had on both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. How did religion affect both men? What influence did their religious background have on their lives and their movements?
Essay Topic 3
Martin Luther King, Jr. placed much faith in the cross and the imagery that the cross represented. Based upon his thoughts, answer the following questions:
- What did the cross represent for King?
- What imagery did King associate with the cross?
- How did Christ's rise from the cross represent the rise of African Americans?
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