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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who made the following statement found in Chapter 11: "The price of freedom is death"?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) King George III.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

2. For how many days did Muhammad silence Malcolm for his comments on the assassination that he had been forbidden to speak about?
(a) 60.
(b) 365.
(c) 90.
(d) 30.

3. To whom did Malcolm gravitate towards after being ostracized from the Nation of Islam?
(a) Bobby Seale.
(b) Robert F. Williams.
(c) Martin Delany.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

4. Who made the following statement found in Chapter 10: "You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is be an intelligent human being"?
(a) W.E.B. DuBois.
(b) Malcolm.
(c) John Stuart Mill.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

7. According to Malcolm, whose job was "passing on black cultural traditions to the children"?
(a) Men's.
(b) The neighborhood's.
(c) Women's.
(d) Society's.

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

9. Who did Malcolm claim God had "raised up...as the one to warn white America" in many of his speeches?
(a) Elijah Muhammad.
(b) The black initiative.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Himself.

10. 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) "The New Yorker."
(b) "The Conservationist."
(c) "Time."
(d) "Playboy."

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

12. 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 slug.
(b) A lion.
(c) A hyena.
(d) A vulture.

13. Who influenced Malcolm's receptiveness to socialism?
(a) Marcus Garvey.
(b) Kwame Nkrumah.
(c) Lewis Woodson.
(d) Franz Fanon.

14. Who made the following statement: "Yes, I am personally the victim of deferred dreams, of blasted hopes"?
(a) Elijah Muhammad.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Rosa Parks.

15. How many years did Malcolm X spend with Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Malcolm claim his view of women came from? (Chapter 10)

2. What was the central theme for both King and Malcolm in the black freedom struggle? (Chapter 9)

3. How did Malcolm publicly characterize the assassination that he had been forbidden to speak about?

4. What leaders did King find more interest in regarding their influence on the change of world politics? (Chapter 9)

5. What did blacks believe having faith in would deliver them from the KKK and other white hate groups?

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