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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 is the American tendency?
(a) To be a winner
(b) To earn money in every situation
(c) To oppress minorities
(d) To run to anyone

2. What does Cleaver say peasants used to be like?
(a) Mentally strong
(b) Closed
(c) Physically strong
(d) Warm and open

3. What does Cleaver call the elderly man in this chapter?
(a) Drip
(b) Crumpet
(c) Lazarus
(d) Uncle Tom

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

5. What does the man say he gave his girlfriend?
(a) A pocket knife
(b) A rose
(c) A gun
(d) A guitar

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of women does Cleaver claim that black men idolize?

2. Who does Cleaver say he heard scream out?

3. What did Cleaver feel when he called Axelrod a bitch?

4. Who does Cleaver dedicate his book to?

5. What problem does Cleaver say the blacks have?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Cleaver think humankind began?

3. Summarize the final chapter.

4. What reason does Cleaver give for the riot in Watts?

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

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

7. What happened to the elderly man's childhood friend?

8. What does Cleaver say in his first letter to Beverly Axelrod?

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

10. Why does Cleaver think that the world needs police and the military?

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