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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which biblical person was Malcolm X compared?
(a) Peter.
(b) Aaron.
(c) John.
(d) Judas.

2. According to Cone in Chapter 8, what separated King from Malcolm?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Pride.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Love.

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

4. How did Malcolm publicly characterize the assassination that he had been forbidden to speak about?
(a) "The rage of blacks entering Stage One."
(b) "Chickens coming home to roost."
(c) "The tortoise beating the hare."
(d) "The wrath of God showing his face."

5. In what year was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1968.

6. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1970.

7. What was the central theme for both King and Malcolm in the black freedom struggle? (Chapter 9)
(a) "Freedom from their chains."
(b) "Stopping the blood flow."
(c) "Honor in America."
(d) "Respect as human beings."

8. According to Cone, to whom was Malcolm's most important audience during his last year?
(a) Third world nations.
(b) Black men of America.
(c) African Americans.
(d) Black Americans.

9. Which U.S. President refused to put voting rights up to Congress after King asked him to?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Eisenhower.

10. Who wrote "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"?
(a) Elijah Muhammad.
(b) Emily Masterson.
(c) Ralph Abernathy.
(d) W.E.B. DuBois.

11. In which Los Angeles ghetto did 14,000 National Guardsmen arrive at to restore order in 1965?
(a) Compton.
(b) Pico-Union.
(c) Watts.
(d) Pacoima.

12. After the 1965 riots in the Los Angeles ghetto, how many "Americas" did Martin Luther King, Jr. come to realize there were?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

13. What did Cone say was a "danger that pervades the leadership expectations of the African-American community"?
(a) The "Destiny plan".
(b) The "Napoleon complex".
(c) The "Messiah complex".
(d) The "Prophet complex".

14. Who made the following statement found in Chapter 10: "The Negro in this country...has never been able to be a man"?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Malcolm.
(d) Elijah Muhammad.

15. According to King, "Nobody could ride your back unless" it is what?
(a) Harnessed.
(b) Bent.
(c) Broken.
(d) Tired.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Cone, what did Malcolm alienate in Chapter 6?

2. How did Cone characterize the media's representations of the "black self" in the 1950s?

3. What did Cone say were the "outward signs of an inward transformation"? (Chapter 11)

4. What names did King omit from his jailhouse diary regarding his arrest in Albany?

5. Malcolm taught the "true Islamic faith", one upheld by Eastern Islamic teachings. To whom did he make it applicable?

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