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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made people feel pride about being associated with Watts?
(a) The Vietnam War
(b) The Nation of Islam
(c) Kennedy's presidency
(d) The riots

2. What does Cleaver think the assassins have hastened?
(a) Cleaver's release
(b) Peace
(c) Malcolm's campaign
(d) Violence

3. Who does Cleaver say he has renounced?
(a) Elijah Muhammed
(b) Uncle Tom
(c) James Baldwin
(d) Malcom X

4. What did Cleaver pin up on the wall of his cell?
(a) A picture of Jesus
(b) A photograph of his mother
(c) A Muslim calender
(d) A pin-up girl

5. What is the name of the first vignette in this chapter?
(a) Eyes
(b) Christ
(c) Harlem
(d) Watts

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cleaver say that younger whites lost respect for cowboys?

2. What does Cleaver say Baldwin's books express a hatred for?

3. What does Cleaver say he is?

4. What does Cleaver say the Uncle Toms were trying to do?

5. What did Cleaver want the prison system to provide?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the first vignette in this chapter.

2. What are the four stages of white youth rebellion?

3. What is punk hunting?

4. How does prison change Cleaver?

5. What is Cleaver's opinion of women while he is in prison?

6. How has Malcolm X changed Cleaver's view of racial difficulties?

7. What is Cleaver's opinion of his prison sentence?

8. What are the prisoners' views on lawyers?

9. Why does Cleaver think there are so few black leaders?

10. What does Cleaver say about the relationship between James Baldwin and Richard Wright?

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