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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 have the upper class foregone physical strength for?

2. What does Cleaver cite as black America's weakness?

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

4. What does Cleaver say peasants used to be like?

5. What does Cleaver say he shares with Beverly?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the correlation between the Negro revolution and the war in Vietnam?

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

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

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

5. Summarize the final chapter.

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

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

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

9. Why does Cleaver think that black men often despise their own women?

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

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

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

Discuss differences between the novel and autobiography formats. What are the main elements of a novel? What are the main elements of an autobiography? What can novelists express that an autobiographer cannot? How can autobiographies keep to the facts while still maintaining a level of entertainment?

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