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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Shattered Dreams (1965-68).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the weekly column that Malcolm wrote for African-American newspapers?
(a) "One Voice."
(b) "Of What I Stand For."
(c) "God's Angry Men."
(d) "The American Nightmare."

2. Which U.S. President did King claim would not speak in major Southern cities?
(a) Kennedy.
(b) Ford.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Eisenhower.

3. In what year did "sit-ins" become an action used by the civil rights movement?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1960.

4. Who gave Malcolm the name "Malcolm X"?
(a) Wallace Fard Muhammad.
(b) Elijah Muhammad.
(c) Louis Farrakhan.
(d) Warith Deen Muhammad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what did Cone state that King was, rather than a "academic theologian"?

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"?

3. When did Malcolm announce his break with the Nation of Islam?

4. On what date did King make his first major speech to the nation?

5. What tradition was Black Christianity associated with?

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