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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: Nothing but Men.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Kill King and blow up his home.
(b) Kill King's wife and daughter.
(c) Bomb King's next rally.
(d) Blow up King's church.

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

3. Who was the founder of the Nation of Islam?
(a) Elijah Muhammad.
(b) Malcolm Little.
(c) Wallace D. Ford.
(d) Elijah Ford Little.

4. What magazine's interview with Martin Luther King, Jr. seemed to speak to Martin's dismissal of Malcolm as a "significant, creative black leader"?
(a) "Time."
(b) "The New Yorker."
(c) "Playboy."
(d) "The Conservationist."

5. What was the name of the English teacher who suggested that Malcolm work in carpentry and not law?
(a) Smythe.
(b) Mueller.
(c) Ostrowski.
(d) DuBois.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the many who saw Malcolm as an advocate of violence and hate fail to acknowledge?

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

3. What magazine called Malcolm X "an unashamed demagogue"?

4. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. claim to be "first and foremost" in his 1961 "Redbook" interview?

5. What tradition did King's faith follow in Christianity?

(see the answer key)

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