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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Chickens Coming Home to Roost (1964-65).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What influenced Malcolm's "conception of the nightmare"?
(a) The abduction of African slaves.
(b) The judgement of God.
(c) W.E.B. DuBois.
(d) Slave narratives.

2. What was the name of the 15-year-old high school student arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger before Rosa Parks did so?
(a) Deborah Miller.
(b) Margie Mathers.
(c) Trunda Blase.
(d) Claudette Colvin.

3. What animal did Malcolm compare blacks to in Chapter 4?
(a) Lions.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Elephants.
(d) Dogs.

4. According to Cone, who was the only person to point out the "past and current injustices of American society in relation to its inhabitants of African descent"?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Rosa Parks.

5. What three themes shaped King's faith and theology?
(a) Justice, fear, and power.
(b) Hope, justice, and love.
(c) Love, balance, and pride.
(d) Pride, Chrisitanity, and hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tradition was Black Christianity associated with?

2. What was the name of Malcolm X's wife?

3. What was the name of the weekly column that Malcolm wrote for African-American newspapers?

4. Who did Malcolm X claim the "real criminal" was in his address in Harlem on August 10, 1963?

5. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. first visit Montgomery, Alabama?

(see the answer key)

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