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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 does Cleaver say America has 20 million of?
(a) Poets
(b) Teenagers
(c) Hippies
(d) Blacks

2. Who does Cleaver dedicate his book to?
(a) President Kennedy
(b) His mother
(c) Axelrod
(d) Malcolm X

3. What does Cleaver say men had the impulse to use?
(a) Guns
(b) Their feet
(c) Their fists
(d) Knives

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

5. What does Cleaver say is happening in Vietnam that is encouraging people to be more approving of blacks?
(a) Genocide
(b) Racism
(c) Deaths of black soldiers
(d) Propaganda

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleaver say he shares with Beverly?

2. What did humans split into when they climbed from the primordial ooze?

3. Who does Cleaver say is here to stay?

4. What does Cleaver say America thinks of itself collectively?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Cleaver think that white women seek out men socially beneath them?

2. How does Cleaver think the American government is deceiving the public about the Vietnam War?

3. What is Cleaver's opinion on the structure of society?

4. Why does Cleaver think the Negro is proving a success in the Sixties?

5. What does Axelrod say in her reply to Cleaver's first letter?

6. Summarize the elderly man's monologue in Chapter 13.

7. What is Cleaver's opinion of black men in this final chapter?

8. Why does Cleaver think black men need to see themselves as strong?

9. What is the correlation between the Negro revolution and the war in Vietnam?

10. Why does Cleaver think it is a mistake to attack the police?

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