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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 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) Claudette Colvin.
(b) Trunda Blase.
(c) Deborah Miller.
(d) Margie Mathers.

2. Who described Malcolm X as "the spokesman of bitter racism"?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) The Chronicle.
(c) The Southern Reporter.
(d) The Washington Post.

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

4. To whom did John Shabazz compare Malcolm X?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Edward III.
(d) Judas.

5. What magazine called Malcolm X "an unashamed demagogue"?
(a) Time.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) The Washington Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the person who called King after a steering committee meeting threaten to do if King did not leave town in three days?

2. Who said, "Sometimes I have dared to dream"?

3. To whom did Malcolm gravitate towards after being ostracized from the Nation of Islam?

4. Who did Malcolm believe was responsible for the conspiracy to oust him from the Black Muslim movement?

5. What did Malcolm copy from to teach himself to read and write?

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