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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who writes the final chapter?
(a) Martin Luther King
(b) Alex Haley
(c) Richard Wright
(d) Jesse Jackson

2. What does Malcolm claim are the positive aspects of the Nation of Islam?
(a) Reforming criminals and drug users
(b) Making the white people look at themselves
(c) Opening communications between blacks and whites
(d) Getting attention for the poor black community

3. With how many secretaries does Malcolm find that Muhammad has been sexually involved?
(a) Three
(b) Six
(c) Ten
(d) Two

4. In what year does this final chapter take place?
(a) 1965
(b) 1964
(c) 1972
(d) 1981

5. Who visits Malcolm in his dream in this chapter?
(a) An Asian man
(b) A white man
(c) Muhammad
(d) Allah

6. What does Malcolm say God removed from the white Muslims?
(a) The devil
(b) Their ego
(c) Their humor
(d) Their whiteness

7. How many pages of a dictionary does Malcolm copy per day?
(a) One
(b) Six
(c) Two
(d) Seven

8. According to Malcolm, what have blacks been brainwashed to worship?
(a) A white, bearded nothing
(b) A blonde, blue-eyed man
(c) A white man getting fat on a black man's work
(d) White women

9. Who does Malcolm say has been suspended from the Nation of Islam?
(a) Ella
(b) Sammy
(c) Reginald
(d) Shorty

10. Who does Malcolm meet in 1965?
(a) Martin Luther King
(b) Alex Hayley
(c) James Baldwin
(d) Jesse Jackson

11. What is Malcolm surprised about when he visits Cairo?
(a) There are Christians
(b) It is full of whites
(c) It is modern
(d) It is poor

12. Who does Malcolm live with in Detroit?
(a) Reginald
(b) Ella
(c) Muhammed
(d) Wilfred

13. Who did Malcolm always credit in his press conferences?
(a) Reginald
(b) Allah
(c) His mother
(d) Elijah Muhammed

14. Where is Muhammad relocated to in this chapter?
(a) Phoenix
(b) Pittsburgh
(c) Michigan
(d) Los Angeles

15. What does Haley say he tried to be when he wrote Malcolm's autobiography?
(a) Funny
(b) A dispassionate chronicler
(c) An observer of his life
(d) A passionate chronicler

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Malcolm surprised about on his travels?

2. What is Malcolm's argument against the Civil Rights movement

3. What does Malcolm tell Muhammad he is discontented with about the Nation of Islam?

4. What word does Malcolm use for the first time at a press conference?

5. What doe Malcolm see outside the Harvard University window?

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