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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 does Cleaver say the Uncle Toms were trying to do?
(a) Become white
(b) Survive
(c) Worship
(d) Find peace

2. What did Cleaver pin up on the wall of his cell?
(a) A photograph of his mother
(b) A picture of Jesus
(c) A Muslim calender
(d) A pin-up girl

3. What is the third vignette entitled?
(a) Christ
(b) Biscuits
(c) Soul Food
(d) KFC

4. What is the only day that Cleaver does not work?
(a) Sunday
(b) Saturday
(c) Monday
(d) Friday

5. What does Cleaver say was missing from his life?
(a) Excitement
(b) Exercise
(c) Women
(d) Friends

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleaver say he is?

2. What does Cleaver say people expect him to be because of his crime?

3. What made people feel pride about being associated with Watts?

4. What does Cleaver do at 3.20pm?

5. In which of the following areas does Cleaver say black men are accepted?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Cleaver think Malcolm was such a magnetic personality?

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

3. What are the prisoners' views on lawyers?

4. Summarize the first vignette in this chapter.

5. How has Malcolm X changed Cleaver's view of racial difficulties?

6. What is Cleaver's opinion of his prison sentence?

7. What is Yacub's history?

8. How does prison change Cleaver?

9. Why did Cleaver become involved in the Catholic Church while in prison?

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

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