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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 happens three times a day?
(a) A prisoner escapes
(b) The prisoners are whipped
(c) The prisoners say their prayers
(d) The prisoners are counted

2. What does Cleaver say he has never been?
(a) An ofay watcher
(b) White
(c) A eunich
(d) Black

3. What does Cleaver say he has stopped referring to the white man as?
(a) The devil
(b) Jesus' sin
(c) The oppressor
(d) The beast

4. What does Cleaver think the assassins have hastened?
(a) Violence
(b) Malcolm's campaign
(c) Peace
(d) Cleaver's release

5. What did the prison authoriites try to eliminate?
(a) Violence
(b) Writing letters
(c) Black prisoners
(d) The Muslim movement

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleaver say Elijah preached?

2. What does Cleaver say he has access to on the honor block?

3. What does Cleaver describe in this chapter?

4. What does Cleaver blame for the black's resurgence in American life?

5. What does Cleaver sometimes do instead of his exercises?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the chapter.

2. Summarize the first vignette in this chapter.

3. Why is Cleaver in love with his lawyer?

4. What is Cleaver's opinion on relationships?

5. How did Elijah Muhammed supporters react to Malcolm X's death?

6. Describe Cleaver's morning routine while in prison.

7. What does Cleaver say about the relationship between James Baldwin and Richard Wright?

8. Why is Beverly Axelrod attracted to Cleaver?

9. What does the fact that Cleaver has attained a cell in the Honor Block say about him?

10. What does Cleaver say he is in Chapter 6?

(see the answer keys)

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