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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 is the name of Cleaver's lawyer?

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

3. What does Cleaver say spectator sports have become?

4. What does Cleaver say he has never been?

5. What drug was Cleaver caught in possession of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Cleaver lose respect for James Baldwin?

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

3. Describe Cleaver's morning routine while in prison.

4. How has Malcolm X changed Cleaver's view of racial difficulties?

5. Why does Cleaver think Malcolm was such a magnetic personality?

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

7. What is Cleaver's opinion on relationships?

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

9. What problem does the Muslim have with Cleaver's eyes in Chapter 3?

10. Why does the prison guard tear down Cleaver's pin up poster?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What problems does Cleaver have with James Baldwin? Why does Cleaver prefer Richard Wright? What influence did both authors have on 1960s culture and, in particular, the Negro revolution?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss with the students first person point of view. Why do the students think first person point of view is not necessarily reliable? What moments in the book do the students think are not so reliable and why? With the students discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using the first person.

Essay Topic 3

Examine Cleaver's time in prison.

1) What concessions did Cleaver have to make in prison to survive?

2) How did prison change Cleaver?

3) What kind of person do the students think Cleaver would have become if he had not gone to prison?

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