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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 say he shares with Beverly?

2. What does Cleaver say America has 20 million of?

3. What does Cleaver say is the only thing women find in bed with an upper class man?

4. Who does Cleaver say Negroes made fun of?

5. Who does Cleaver say is here to stay?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Cleaver write about their relationship in his second letter to Axelrod?

3. What happened to the elderly man's childhood friend?

4. What is Cleaver's opinion of black men in this final chapter?

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

6. Why does Cleaver call his fellow prisoners eunuchs?

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

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

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

10. Summarize the final chapter.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and outline Cleaver's thoughts on the subject. Use your own ideas to argue whether you think Cleaver is right or wrong.

1) The white upper classes.

2) Vietnam

3) Segregation

Essay Topic 2

Do the students think Cleaver is unrealistic by asking for American blacks to open discussions with Africans? What problems do the students think such discussions could cause?

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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