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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. Who does Cleaver address in this chapter?

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

3. What does Cleaver say he has considered running for?

4. Who does Cleaver write letters to in this chapter?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Axelrod say in her reply to Cleaver's first letter?

8. What does Cleaver think threatens the Negro revolution?

9. How does Cleaver think humankind began?

10. Summarize the elderly man's monologue in Chapter 13.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss with the students first person point of view. Why do the students think first person point of view is not necessarily reliable? What moments in the book do the students think are not so reliable and why? With the students discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using the first person.

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following people and outline his/her influence on Eldridge Cleaver 's life and ideas.

1) Malcom X

2) Beverly Axelrod

3) President Kennedy

Essay Topic 3

Why did President Kennedy represent great hope for Afro-Americans? How did his death affect the Afro-American community? How do you think things would have been different if President Kennedy had lived?

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