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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cleaver say Kennedy's assassination created?
(a) An angry public
(b) The Summer of Love
(c) A larger than life hero
(d) Teenagers

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

3. What does Cleaver think black men are brought up not to show?
(a) Wealth
(b) Feet
(c) Feelings
(d) Weakness

4. What does the man say the relationship with his girlfriend became like after the knife incident?
(a) Loving
(b) Docile
(c) Frightening
(d) Unmanageable

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

6. What did humans split into when they climbed from the primordial ooze?
(a) Muslims and Christians
(b) Male and female
(c) Good and bad
(d) Black and white

7. What have the two sexes always sought to do after splitting up?
(a) Argue
(b) Run away from each other
(c) Procreate
(d) Reunite

8. What does Cleaver say Malcom X did not believe in?
(a) Human rights
(b) Civil rights
(c) Animal rights
(d) Segregation

9. What does Cleaver say Malcolm X wanted?
(a) Civil rights
(b) Human rights
(c) Peace
(d) Segregation

10. What does Cleaver say he has considered running for?
(a) Senator
(b) Mayor
(c) President
(d) Leadership of the Nation of Islam

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

12. What is the title of this chapter?
(a) Fight the Power
(b) Blood of the Beast, Rallying Round the Flag
(c) As God is My Witness
(d) A Loving Spoonful

13. Which other traditional black dance does Cleaver say the whites took up in the Sixties?
(a) Fox trot
(b) Pringles
(c) Salsa
(d) Hula hoop

14. Whose teachings does Cleaver say he carefully studied before supporting him?
(a) Elijah Muhammed
(b) Malcolm X
(c) Beverly Axelrod
(d) Martin Luther King

15. What war does Cleaver talk about in this chapter?
(a) The Vietnam War
(b) The Korean War
(c) World War II
(d) The American Civil War

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Cleaver say people will be able to live without in a utopia?

2. What does Cleaver call the elderly man in this chapter?

3. What Communist nation does Cleaver talk about in this chapter?

4. What does Cleaver say men had the impulse to use?

5. What does Cleaver say is the American tendency?

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