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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 other traditional black dance does Cleaver say the whites took up in the Sixties?
(a) Hula hoop
(b) Salsa
(c) Fox trot
(d) Pringles

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

3. What does Cleaver say he has considered running for?
(a) Leadership of the Nation of Islam
(b) President
(c) Senator
(d) Mayor

4. Who used to pick fights with the old man?
(a) His girlfriend
(b) His mother
(c) His boss
(d) His brother

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the black man say the white man wants the black man to be?

2. What does Cleaver cite as black America's weakness?

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

4. What does the man say black men are not allowed access to?

5. What does Cleaver say Kennedy's assassination created?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Cleaver call his fellow prisoners eunuchs?

6. Summarize the final chapter.

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

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

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

10. Why does Cleaver think President Johnson opposes sit-ins and teach-ins?

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