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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 race was 16 percent of the people sent to Vietnam?

2. Where does Cleaver say humans climbed out from?

3. What does Cleaver call black women at the end of the chapter?

4. How did the man's friend kill himself?

5. What does the man say black men are not allowed access to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Cleaver's opinion on the structure of society?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Cleaver say in his first letter to Beverly Axelrod?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Outline Cleaver's prison routine. How do the students think this routine benefited Cleaver? How did Cleaver make the most of his days?

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

Choose one of the following and outline Cleaver's thoughts on the subject. Use your own ideas to argue whether you think Cleaver is right or wrong.

1) The white upper classes.

2) Vietnam

3) Segregation

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