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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What incident in 1957 brought Malcolm to the attention of the larger black community, especially in Harlem?
(a) The Jack Rosdale incident.
(b) The Hinton Johnson incident.
(c) The Lyndon Johnson incident.
(d) The Montgomery Bus Boycott incident.

2. How many objectives did King announce for the role of blacks in the movement?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

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

4. According to Cone, who did blacks in the ghettos turn to for hope?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Elijah Muhammad.
(d) Malcolm X.

5. What did Malcolm call Martin Luther King, Jr. because of the whites naming him as the "leader of the blacks"?
(a) "A traitor."
(b) "A hater of the black movement."
(c) "A misnomer."
(d) "A religious Uncle Tom."

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Martin Luther King, Jr. give his "Autobiography of Religious Development" sermon?

2. What was the South described as during the "antebellum" period?

3. What faith shaped King's idea of God?

4. Whom did the Introduction name as the most persuasive person in pointing out the hypocrisies of the Declaration of Independence?

5. In what year did Martin Luther King, Jr. first visit Montgomery, Alabama?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the North considered "Canaan"?

2. What was Malcolm's idea of justice?

3. Why did Malcolm state, "While King was having a dream, the rest of us Negros are having a nightmare"?

4. What happened to Malcolm's parents during his youth?

5. Where and when did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X first meet?

6. Discuss Malcolm's time at school.

7. Why did Malcolm have a problem with King's use of Christian values to help the black freedom movement progress forward?

8. What three factors formed the context for King's idea of the "American Dream"?

9. What did the concept of unity mean to Malcolm?

10. What were the problems associated with Du Bois' theory of "twoness"?

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