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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 man say the relationship with his girlfriend became like after the knife incident?
(a) Frightening
(b) Unmanageable
(c) Docile
(d) Loving

2. What have the two sexes always sought to do after splitting up?
(a) Argue
(b) Reunite
(c) Run away from each other
(d) Procreate

3. What does Cleaver say the American public sees South Vietnam as?
(a) Cute and quaint
(b) Anti-capitalists
(c) Peace-loving Democrats
(d) Freedom-hating Communists

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleaver say is the only thing women find in bed with an upper class man?

2. What does Cleaver say is happening in Vietnam that is encouraging people to be more approving of blacks?

3. What city is Watts in?

4. What does Cleaver say he embraced?

5. What does Axelrod say Cleaver's flirtation may be based on?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How have Axelrod and Cleaver's time in prison changed his attitude to women?

3. How does Cleaver think humankind began?

4. What does Cleaver think is the only way to guarantee black security?

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

6. Why does Cleaver call his fellow prisoners eunuchs?

7. Why does Cleaver think things like the twist have become so influential?

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

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

10. What does Cleaver write about their relationship in his second letter to Axelrod?

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