Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

James H. Cone
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 111 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

James H. Cone
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 111 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s first experience with segregation?

2. What did Malcolm copy from to teach himself to read and write?

3. How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last?

4. What three themes shaped King's faith and theology?

5. Where did Cone say that the understanding of King's faith and theology began?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What were the problems associated with the media's portrayal of King and Malcolm as adversaries?

5. Why did King realize the problem with black's self-respect?

6. How did Cone show Martin Luther King, Sr.'s mindset on what a boy and a man were?

7. Discuss Malcolm's time at school.

8. What was the difference in the way that whites and blacks were addressed during Martin's youth?

9. How did Frederick Douglass use the Constitution to declare his rights as an American?

10. In accordance with the black freedom movement, what two tasks did King believe were necessary to speak to whites about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Based upon the facts that Cone presented, do you think that racism today is different from racism from the time of King and Malcolm? How? What are the similarities?

Essay Topic 2

Readers are shown the very different ways that King and Malcolm X were brought up. King was surrounded by core Christian values, while Malcolm X was the product of turmoil. How do you think their different upbringings helped to form them as leaders, and therefore the movements, given they were both fighting for the same thing?

Essay Topic 3

Both King and Malcolm had a path that they both decided was the best for the black freedom movement. Compare and contrast the different paths that King and Malcolm believed would lead to black freedom.

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