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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 Louise's feeling about being light skinned?

2. Why is Malcolm not at the Lancing High School dance?

3. What does the teenage Malcolm excel in that wins him admiration?

4. Who is the fair, young mulatto woman hanging out clothes?

5. What prophetic dream does Malcolm tell Laura he used to have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whose voice do the viewers hear saying, "Brothers, sisters, this is not our home! Our homeland is in Africa! In Africa!"

2. How does Malcolm recall his father?

3. Where did Alex Baldwin get the material to write the scenario?

4. Who does Louise Little, Malcolm's mother, have to confront in the back yard of her house?

5. What stands in the way of Malcolm's marrying Laura?

6. What does Malcolm muse about as he thinks about his past?

7. In another flashback, how does Malcolm see himself as a prisoner?

8. What is the opening sequence in the screenplay?

9. What is the Klan's warning to Louise?

10. What comes out to explain Louise's fair complexion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay of two or more typed, double-spaced pages on Prejudice. Using the Movement as an example and the early militancy of Malcolm, discuss how prejudice causes people to make wrong decisions, not to listen to opposing ideas, and generalizations that are transferred wrongly onto individuals.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of two or more typed, double-spaced pages on Reevaluating First Impressions. Using Malcolm X as your example, discuss (1) the first impression most white people had about Malcolm X, (2) the changes that took place in his thinking, and (3) the reason most people did not recognize the changes. Apply that example to a discussion of why first impressions are not always reliable but are difficult to change.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of two or more typed, double-spaced pages on Mistaken Generalizations. Point out in your essay how the idea of the white devil translated into hate for the entire race of white people. Discuss how the same is true in reverse. Make a case for judging people by their actions rather than their ethnicity.

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