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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 only thing women find in bed with an upper class man?
(a) Mental satisfaction
(b) Physical exhaustion
(c) Sexual satisfaction
(d) Laughter

2. What does Cleaver say Kennedy's assassination created?
(a) A larger than life hero
(b) An angry public
(c) Teenagers
(d) The Summer of Love

3. Why can't the government promote the Vietnam War as a civil war?
(a) They would not receive financial aid
(b) Americans would not support it
(c) It is not a civil war
(d) Blacks would not fight

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

5. What does Cleaver compare the Negro Revolution to?
(a) World War II
(b) American Independence
(c) The Vietnam War
(d) The American Civil War

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleaver think was not a positive move for the Negro revolution?

2. What does Cleaver say a black man was willing to do for his white master?

3. What does the man say the relationship with his girlfriend became like after the knife incident?

4. What is the title of this chapter?

5. Who does Cleaver write letters to in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the final chapter.

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

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

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

5. What does Cleaver think threatens the Negro revolution?

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

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

8. Why does Cleaver call his fellow prisoners eunuchs?

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

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

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