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

2. What kind of war does Cleaver say the Vietnam War is?
(a) A civil war
(b) A cold war
(c) A world war
(d) A strategic war

3. What have the upper class foregone physical strength for?
(a) Mental strength
(b) Position in society
(c) Love
(d) Sin

4. Why can't the government promote the Vietnam War as a civil war?
(a) It is not a civil war
(b) They would not receive financial aid
(c) Blacks would not fight
(d) Americans would not support it

5. Which other traditional black dance does Cleaver say the whites took up in the Sixties?
(a) Hula hoop
(b) Salsa
(c) Pringles
(d) Fox trot

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Cleaver use in this chapter to refer to all black men?

2. What does Cleaver think black men are brought up not to show?

3. What does Cleaver call the upper class?

4. What does Cleaver say is the only thing women find in bed with an upper class man?

5. What does Cleaver say he embraced?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cleaver think humankind began?

2. Why does Cleaver think President Johnson opposes sit-ins and teach-ins?

3. Why don't the younger men like the elderly black prisoner in Chapter 13?

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

5. Why does Cleaver call his fellow prisoners eunuchs?

6. Why does Cleaver think that the world needs police and the military?

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

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

9. Why does Cleaver think that white women seek out men socially beneath them?

10. What does Cleaver think threatens the Negro revolution?

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