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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Cleaver say had a leer and a hint of a smile after Malcolm X's death?
(a) Elijah Muhammed supporters
(b) The white prisoners
(c) Beverly Axelrod
(d) The prison guards

2. To what does Cleaver liken being associated to Watts?
(a) A country bumpkin
(b) Falling in love
(c) Being in a bad marriage
(d) Hell

3. What was Cleaver doing when Malcolm X was killed?
(a) Fighting
(b) Playing marbles
(c) Writing
(d) Watching a movie

4. What did Cleaver's lawyer give him that resulted in Cleaver spending time in solitary confinement?
(a) Drugs
(b) Photographs
(c) Magazines
(d) A toothbrush

5. In which of the following areas does Cleaver say black men are accepted?
(a) Academia
(b) High society
(c) Sports
(d) Prison

6. What does Cleaver call Rufus Scott?
(a) A beast
(b) A black devil
(c) A black eunuch
(d) An imperialist

7. What is the third vignette entitled?
(a) Biscuits
(b) KFC
(c) Soul Food
(d) Christ

8. What does Cleaver sometimes do instead of his exercises?
(a) Steal food
(b) Meditate
(c) Write
(d) Phone his mother

9. Why does Cleaver say that younger whites lost respect for cowboys?
(a) They used guns
(b) They slaughtered Indians
(c) They were rude
(d) They spoke poor English

10. What does Cleaver say he was infatuated with?
(a) Cinema
(b) Crime
(c) White women
(d) Weed

11. What does Cleaver do at 3.20pm?
(a) Returns to his cell
(b) Does his exercises
(c) Plays cards
(d) Watches television

12. Which of the following words does Cleaver decide to use to refer to the white man?
(a) Mongrel
(b) Power monger
(c) Imperialist
(d) Killer

13. Which singer does Cleaver talk about in this chapter?
(a) Paul Robeson
(b) Little Richard
(c) James Brown
(d) Elvis Presley

14. What does Cleaver say he has stopped referring to the white man as?
(a) The oppressor
(b) The beast
(c) The devil
(d) Jesus' sin

15. What happens three times a day?
(a) The prisoners are counted
(b) The prisoners are whipped
(c) The prisoners say their prayers
(d) A prisoner escapes

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleaver dream of doing with his lawyer in his sleep?

2. Who does Cleaver say he has renounced?

3. What does Claever talk about in connection with sex?

4. What did the prison authoriites try to eliminate?

5. What does Cleaver say is the second step in white rebellion?

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