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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 peasants used to be like?
3. What does the black man say the white man wants the black man to be?
4. What does Cleaver think makes the difference in the Sixties Negro Revolution?
5. What does Cleaver think black men are brought up not to show?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the correlation between the Negro revolution and the war in Vietnam?
2. Why does Cleaver think President Johnson opposes sit-ins and teach-ins?
3. Why does Cleaver call his fellow prisoners eunuchs?
4. What events does Cleaver attribute to bridging the racial gap?
5. What reason does Cleaver give for the riot in Watts?
6. Why does Cleaver think black men need to see themselves as strong?
7. What does Cleaver think threatens the Negro revolution?
8. What does Axelrod say in her reply to Cleaver's first letter?
9. How does Cleaver define the new left and the new right?
10. What is Cleaver's opinion of black men in this final chapter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Why does Cleaver think there is a need for police and military? Did he think rioters had any other choice other than to attack the police and military? Was the attack on the police in particular an example of the American blacks' disorganization?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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