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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleaver do at 3.20pm?

2. What does Claever talk about in connection with sex?

3. What did Cleaver want the prison system to provide?

4. What does Cleaver vow the black will have?

5. What does Cleaver talk about the need for in this section?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is punk hunting?

2. What does Cleaver say he is in Chapter 6?

3. What is Cleaver's opinion on relationships?

4. Why is Beverly Axelrod attracted to Cleaver?

5. What does Cleaver say about the relationship between James Baldwin and Richard Wright?

6. Why does Cleaver think there are so few black leaders?

7. Summarize the first vignette in this chapter.

8. How did Elijah Muhammed supporters react to Malcolm X's death?

9. Summarize the chapter.

10. Why does Cleaver think the whites favored Floyd Patterson over Mohammed Ali?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Cleaver think society has been structured? How does this society keep people in their place? What do you think normal people have to do to make changes in this society?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following people and outline his/her influence on Eldridge Cleaver 's life and ideas.

1) Malcom X

2) Beverly Axelrod

3) President Kennedy

Essay Topic 3

Why did President Kennedy represent great hope for Afro-Americans? How did his death affect the Afro-American community? How do you think things would have been different if President Kennedy had lived?

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