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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. Why does Cleaver think people find him lacking?
(a) He is constantly arguing
(b) He does not feel sorry for his actions
(c) He is unable to back up his ideas
(d) He is alone

2. What problem does Cleaver say the blacks have?
(a) Motivation
(b) Unity
(c) Goals
(d) White people

3. Which of the following does Cleaver not attribute to helping to bridge the racial gap?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream speech
(b) John F. Kennedy's election to president
(c) The introduction of the twist
(d) Changing music

4. What does Cleaver say is the only guarantee for black security?
(a) To join minorities from around the world
(b) To have a black president
(c) To peacefully demonstrate
(d) To move back to Africa

5. What does Cleaver call the leader of a society?
(a) Omnipotent
(b) Mr. President
(c) Phillip
(d) Godhead

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleaver think makes the difference in the Sixties Negro Revolution?

2. What does Cleaver say he embraced?

3. What does Cleaver say some people think the world will eventually become?

4. Who does Cleaver say he heard scream out?

5. What does Cleaver say America thinks of itself collectively?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Cleaver think black men need to see themselves as strong?

2. Why does Cleaver think things like the twist have become so influential?

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

4. What reason does Cleaver give for the riot in Watts?

5. What is the correlation between the Negro revolution and the war in Vietnam?

6. What happened to the elderly man's childhood friend?

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

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

9. How does Cleaver think humankind began?

10. What does Cleaver think Americans think of themselves collectively?

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