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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. Which president does Cleaver say opposes sit-ins and teach-ins?
(a) John Kennedy
(b) Richard Nixon
(c) Lyndon Johnson
(d) Jimmy Carter

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

3. What does Cleaver think was not a positive move for the Negro revolution?
(a) Martin Luther King's speech
(b) President Kennedy's death
(c) The Watts riots
(d) Malcolm X's death

4. What does Cleaver call the upper class?
(a) The power
(b) The mind
(c) The desire
(d) The weak

5. What does Cleaver think Lyndon Johnson fears?
(a) The elder generation
(b) The black revolution
(c) Youth
(d) The truth

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Cleaver think people find him lacking?

3. What does Cleaver say he has considered running for?

4. Whose teachings does Cleaver say he carefully studied before supporting him?

5. What does Cleaver say he used to call women?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Cleaver call his fellow prisoners eunuchs?

7. How does Cleaver define the new left and the new right?

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

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

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

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