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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of men do black women respect?
(a) Men of the mind
(b) Men of action
(c) Men who stay at home
(d) Men who have money

2. Why does Cleaver think the government is starting to hand African Americans equal rights?
(a) To send a powerful message to USSR
(b) To create a good image
(c) For economic reasons
(d) To pacify the public

3. What is "Put a black finger on the nuclear trigger" a slogan for?
(a) The Vietnam War
(b) A presidential campaign
(c) The Negro revolution
(d) A bar

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

5. What does the black man say the white man wants the black man to be?
(a) A strong, menial slave
(b) A dollar sign
(c) Educated and happy
(d) Entertaining

6. What did Cleaver feel when he called Axelrod a bitch?
(a) Shame
(b) Emptiness
(c) Excitement
(d) Jealousy

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

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

9. Where does Cleaver say humans climbed out from?
(a) An Icelandic volcano
(b) The sea
(c) A swap
(d) Primordial ooze

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

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

12. What does Cleaver say a black man was willing to do for his white master?
(a) Pick cotton all day
(b) Destroy his own race
(c) Give up his woman
(d) Die

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

14. What does Cleaver say Communist governments use police for?
(a) To spy on people
(b) To defend property
(c) To stop people leaving the country
(d) To kill people

15. What minority does the old man say has more power then the black man?
(a) The Hispanics
(b) The Vietnamese
(c) Black women
(d) The Jewish

Short Answer Questions

1. What have the upper class foregone physical strength for?

2. What does Cleaver tell Axelrod he thinks he deserves?

3. Why can't the government promote the Vietnam War as a civil war?

4. What does Cleaver think is the blacks' strengths?

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

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