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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. At what age did Martin Luther King, Jr. attend Morehouse College?
(a) 19.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 17.

2. 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) Rosa Parks.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. Who was considered the most effective missionary of the Nation of Islam?
(a) Louis Farrakhan.
(b) Wallace D. Fard Muhammad.
(c) Elijah Muhammad.
(d) Malcolm X.

4. How did Malcolm publicly characterize the assassination that he had been forbidden to speak about?
(a) "The wrath of God showing his face."
(b) "The rage of blacks entering Stage One."
(c) "Chickens coming home to roost."
(d) "The tortoise beating the hare."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What city was known as the "Cradle of the Confederacy"?

2. To whom did John Shabazz compare Malcolm X?

3. What did Malcolm X claim he was first?

4. Who was the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott?

5. By what title did King's admirers frequently refer to him?

(see the answer key)

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