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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Malcolm consider socialism to be an alternative for?
(a) Nationalism.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Taoism.

2. What did Malcolm compare himself to when he spoke of his sinking to "the very bottom of the American white man's society"?
(a) A lion.
(b) A hyena.
(c) A vulture.
(d) A slug.

3. 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."

4. What bill was passed on August 6, 1965?
(a) Jim Crow Bills.
(b) The Equal Protection Bill.
(c) The Equal Rights Bill.
(d) The Voting Rights Bill.

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

6. What two people's ideas did King infuse in regard to nonviolence and spirituality? (Chapter 9)
(a) Gandhi and Thoreau.
(b) Orville and Gandhi.
(c) Martin Luther King, Sr. and Mills.
(d) DuBois and Jesus.

7. Who made the following statement: "But the danger is that white people use King"?
(a) Elijah Muhammad.
(b) Malcolm.
(c) Wallace-Elijah's son.
(d) Louis Farikan.

8. How did Cone characterize the media's representations of the "black self" in the 1950s?
(a) Narrow.
(b) Demeaning.
(c) Meaningless.
(d) Negative.

9. According to Cone, who should blacks whom are proud of their African heritage thank? (Chapter 11)
(a) Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
(b) W.E.B. DuBois.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Anthony Davis.

10. What names did King omit from his jailhouse diary regarding his arrest in Albany?
(a) The names Dr. Anderson and Ralph Abernathy.
(b) The names of Slater King and Rev. Ben Gay.
(c) The names of the women arrested.
(d) The names of Rosa Parks and Malcom X.

11. What did Cone say were the "outward signs of an inward transformation"? (Chapter 11)
(a) Traditional robings.
(b) Braiding and naturalism.
(c) Afros and dashikis.
(d) Gospel and religious practice.

12. What did Malcolm call the black leaders that accepted financial support from liberal whites?
(a) "Racists."
(b) "Slaves."
(c) "Puppies."
(d) "Puppets."

13. What was considered Malcolm's most repeated and controversial claim?
(a) "White America lied!"
(b) "White America is doomed!"
(c) "White America will pay!"
(d) "White America will fall!"

14. Where did Malcolm claim his view of women came from? (Chapter 10)
(a) The Nation of Islam.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Society.
(d) His mother.

15. Who served as the "acting director" of the SCLC although most of the male preachers found she did not "exhibit the 'right attitude"?
(a) Jo Ann Robinson.
(b) Ella Baker.
(c) Fannie Lou Hammer.
(d) Mary Fair Burks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the nickname for the infamous March 7th attack at the Edmund Pettus Bridge?

2. What title did Muhammad bestow on Malcolm in 1963?

3. What did Cone say African Americans needed instead of more churches? (Chapter 11)

4. After the 1965 riots in the Los Angeles ghetto, how many "Americas" did Martin Luther King, Jr. come to realize there were?

5. Who did Malcolm claim God had "raised up...as the one to warn white America" in many of his speeches?

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