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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Cleaver think it was a mistake for the blacks to direct their anger towards the police?
(a) The police are on their side
(b) People respect law abiding citizens
(c) They are only following orders
(d) It could result in deaths

2. What does Cleaver say Axelrod revived?
(a) Guilt
(b) A sense of proportion
(c) A sense of self
(d) Sexual desire

3. What does Cleaver say some people think the world will eventually become?
(a) Paradise
(b) A dystopia
(c) A barren planet
(d) A utopia

4. What does Cleaver say he used to call women?
(a) Slave
(b) Slutt
(c) Bitch
(d) Whore

5. What does Cleaver say he shares with Beverly?
(a) A deep soul
(b) The same opinion
(c) The ultimate love
(d) Two children

6. What does Cleaver cite as black America's weakness?
(a) Their general lack of education
(b) Love of the weed
(c) Disorganization
(d) Their lack of money

7. What does Cleaver think Lyndon Johnson fears?
(a) Youth
(b) The black revolution
(c) The elder generation
(d) The truth

8. Who does Cleaver say Negroes made fun of?
(a) White musicians
(b) Asian shopkeepers
(c) Themselves
(d) White dancers

9. How did the man's friend kill himself?
(a) Shooting himself
(b) Bashing his head against the wall
(c) Jumping from a bridge
(d) Put his head in a gas oven

10. What Communist nation does Cleaver talk about in this chapter?
(a) The Soviet Union
(b) North Vietnam
(c) South Vietnam
(d) Czechoslovakia

11. What city is Watts in?
(a) New York
(b) Los Angeles
(c) San Francisco
(d) Seattle

12. What does Axelrod say Cleaver's flirtation may be based on?
(a) Love
(b) Lack of female contact
(c) His desire to communicate
(d) His blackness

13. What does Cleaver talk about a need for in society in this chapter?
(a) The military and the police
(b) Rebellion
(c) Anarchy
(d) Love and peace

14. What does Cleaver say the American public sees South Vietnam as?
(a) Peace-loving Democrats
(b) Freedom-hating Communists
(c) Anti-capitalists
(d) Cute and quaint

15. Who do the blacks direct their anger towards?
(a) The police
(b) The government
(c) The hippies
(d) The military

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleaver say peasants used to be like?

2. What does Cleaver call black women at the end of the chapter?

3. What does Cleaver say the noble men of the past used to be like?

4. What does the man say he gave his girlfriend?

5. What have the two sexes always sought to do after splitting up?

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