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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 Axelrod say Cleaver's flirtation may be based on?
(a) Lack of female contact
(b) His blackness
(c) His desire to communicate
(d) Love

2. What does Cleaver think is the blacks' strengths?
(a) Their sense of loyalty
(b) Their numbers
(c) Their anger
(d) Their physical prowess

3. What does Cleaver say he embraced?
(a) Love
(b) Violence
(c) Sex
(d) Hate

4. What does Cleaver say Kennedy's assassination created?
(a) A larger than life hero
(b) Teenagers
(c) The Summer of Love
(d) An angry public

5. What does Cleaver say Malcolm X wanted?
(a) Civil rights
(b) Human rights
(c) Segregation
(d) Peace

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of women does Cleaver claim that black men idolize?

2. What does Cleaver say men had the impulse to use?

3. What does Cleaver say is the only guarantee for black security?

4. What kind of men do black women respect?

5. What does Cleaver say Malcom X did not believe in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What events does Cleaver attribute to bridging the racial gap?

2. How does Cleaver think the American government is deceiving the public about the Vietnam War?

3. Why does Cleaver think that black men often despise their own women?

4. What does Cleaver write about their relationship in his second letter to Axelrod?

5. Why does Cleaver think it is a mistake to attack the police?

6. How does Cleaver define the new left and the new right?

7. Why does Cleaver think the Negro is proving a success in the Sixties?

8. Summarize the final chapter.

9. What is Cleaver's opinion of black men in this final chapter?

10. How have Axelrod and Cleaver's time in prison changed his attitude to women?

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