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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) 17.
(b) 19.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

2. From whose teachings did Martin Luther King, Jr. learn of successful nonviolent actions?
(a) Gandhi.
(b) Gaius.
(c) Descartes.
(d) John Stewert Mill.

3. What incident in 1957 brought Malcolm to the attention of the larger black community, especially in Harlem?
(a) The Jack Rosdale incident.
(b) The Lyndon Johnson incident.
(c) The Montgomery Bus Boycott incident.
(d) The Hinton Johnson incident.

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

5. What did Malcolm call Martin Luther King, Jr. because of the whites naming him as the "leader of the blacks"?
(a) "A misnomer."
(b) "A hater of the black movement."
(c) "A traitor."
(d) "A religious Uncle Tom."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what type of store did Martin Luther King, Jr. and his father experience racism together?

3. What influenced Malcolm's "conception of the nightmare"?

4. Who described Malcolm X as "the spokesman of bitter racism"?

5. What did Henry X, the Black Muslim minister, say that Malcolm had abandoned to become a "political sociologist"?

(see the answer key)

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