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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cleaver say he was infatuated with?

2. What did a man in San Quentin say Cleaver had in his eyes?

3. What does Cleaver call Rufus Scott?

4. How did the blacks loyal to Elijah Muhammed see Malcolm's death?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Cleaver in love with his lawyer?

2. What are the prisoners' views on lawyers?

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

4. Why did Cleaver lose respect for James Baldwin?

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

6. Why does Cleaver think there are so few black leaders?

7. Describe Cleaver's encounter with a woman on Main Street.

8. How does prison change Cleaver?

9. Why does Cleaver think the whites favored Floyd Patterson over Mohammed Ali?

10. What is punk hunting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Cleaver think there is a need for police and military? Did he think rioters had any other choice other than to attack the police and military? Was the attack on the police in particular an example of the American blacks' disorganization?

Essay Topic 2

How does Cleaver think society has been structured? How does this society keep people in their place? What do you think normal people have to do to make changes in this society?

Essay Topic 3

Look at the structure of the book.

1) Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's ideas?

2) Examine the way Cleaver uses other people in the story to express his ideas.

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