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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 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

2. What do the three men think the elderly men has sold out to?
(a) A life of crime
(b) An easy life
(c) White man's demands
(d) White man's religion

3. How did the man's arguments with his girlfriend end?
(a) Sex
(b) Shaking hands
(c) Apologies
(d) Violence

4. What problem does Cleaver say the blacks have?
(a) Goals
(b) Motivation
(c) White people
(d) Unity

5. What does Cleaver say lower class people think they have been robbed of?
(a) Their freedom
(b) Their minds
(c) Their money
(d) Their power

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Cleaver think Lyndon Johnson fears?

3. What does Cleaver say the noble men of the past used to be like?

4. What city is Watts in?

5. What word does Cleaver use in this chapter to refer to all black men?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why don't the younger men like the elderly black prisoner in Chapter 13?

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

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

8. Summarize the final chapter.

9. What does Cleaver think threatens the Negro revolution?

10. Why does Cleaver call his fellow prisoners eunuchs?

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