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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. After how many years of "verbal sparring" did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X meet?
2. What were the two "great resistance traditions in African-American history" that the meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. provided to the black freedom movement?
3. Who did Malcolm X claim the "real criminal" was in his address in Harlem on August 10, 1963?
4. Who gave Malcolm the name "Malcolm X"?
5. In what year was Malcolm X born?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened to Malcolm's parents during his youth?
2. How did Frederick Douglass use the Constitution to declare his rights as an American?
3. What metaphor has always dominated by King's writings and speeches?
4. What meaning did the meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. have on the black freedom movement?
5. What were the issues that nationalists faced?
6. According to Cone, what did the black middle class believe in?
7. Why was the North considered "Canaan"?
8. What did the concept of unity mean to Malcolm?
9. What was Malcolm's idea of justice?
10. What did King believe was necessary for all people to be free in America?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Malcolm had his own five objectives: unity, self-knowledge, self-love, self-defense, and separation. Discuss Malcolm's objectives. Why did Malcolm see them as important? Why did Malcolm see these objectives as the path to black freedom?
Essay Topic 3
Based on the information in the book, who do you think had the greatest impact on the civil rights or black freedom movement? Why?
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