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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. Who do the blacks direct their anger towards?

2. Why can't the government promote the Vietnam War as a civil war?

3. What does Axelrod say Cleaver's flirtation may be based on?

4. What does Cleaver say is the American tendency?

5. What word does Cleaver use in this chapter to refer to all black men?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Cleaver think that the world needs police and the military?

2. What does Cleaver say in his first letter to Beverly Axelrod?

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

4. What does Cleaver think Americans think of themselves collectively?

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

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

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

8. What events does Cleaver attribute to bridging the racial gap?

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

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

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

Choose one of the following and examine how it helped to bridge the racial gap:

1) Popular music

2) The Twist

3) President Kennedy

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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