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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s first experience with segregation?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 12.

2. What was the North described as during the "antebellum" period?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Canaan.
(c) Eden.
(d) White.

3. What church was King's father a minister of?
(a) South Central Baptist Church.
(b) Montgomery First Baptist Church.
(c) Ebenezer Baptist Church.
(d) First Baptist Church.

4. At what age did King join the Ebenezer Baptist Church?
(a) 5.
(b) 16.
(c) 11.
(d) 13.

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

6. What did Malcolm claim was "seventh heaven" in Chapter 2?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Roxbury.
(c) Harlem.
(d) New York City.

7. Who was Malcolm's focus audience when he spoke?
(a) Governmental leaders.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Whites.
(d) Racists.

8. Where did King make his first major speech to the nation?
(a) The lawn of the White House.
(b) The Library of Congress.
(c) The Washington Monument.
(d) The Lincoln Memorial.

9. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. claim to be "first and foremost" in his 1961 "Redbook" interview?
(a) An activist.
(b) A man.
(c) A black.
(d) A minister.

10. What was the "secret church of slaves" named?
(a) "The Sacred."
(b) "The Nation."
(c) "Invisible instutition."
(d) "The NAACP."

11. 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) Rosa Parks.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Malcolm X.

12. Who did Malcolm X claim the "real criminal" was in his address in Harlem on August 10, 1963?
(a) The "white race".
(b) The "white man who poses as a liberal".
(c) The men who "chained the slaves in Africa".
(d) The "Government of the US in whole".

13. What three themes shaped King's faith and theology?
(a) Pride, Chrisitanity, and hope.
(b) Hope, justice, and love.
(c) Justice, fear, and power.
(d) Love, balance, and pride.

14. Who did Malcolm X claim killed his father?
(a) The Black Legionnaires.
(b) The Ku Klux Klan.
(c) The White Supremacists.
(d) America.

15. How tall was Malcolm X?
(a) Five feet four inches.
(b) Five feet ten inches.
(c) Six feet three inches.
(d) Six feet nine inches.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Malcolm's mother raise on her own after her husband's death?

2. What did Peter Bailey call Malcolm X?

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

4. Who was considered the most effective missionary of the Nation of Islam?

5. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act passed?

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