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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X & Alex Haley
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Summary
Plot Overview
Summary & Analysis
Chapters One & Two
Chapters Three & Four
Chapters Five, Six & Seven
Chapters Eight & Nine
Chapters Ten & Eleven
Chapters Twelve & Thirteen
Chapters Fourteen, Fifteen & Sixteen
Chapters Seventeen, Eighteen & Nineteen
Epilogue
Characters
Character List
Malcolm as Malcolm Little
Malcolm as Detroit Red
Malcolm as Satan
Malcolm as Malcolm X
Malcolm as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Main Ideas
Themes
Motifs
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Key Facts
Quotes
Important Quotes Explained
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Context
Plot Overview
Character List
Analysis of Major Characters
Themes, Motifs & Symbols
Chapters One & Two
Chapters Three & Four
Chapters Five, Six & Seven
Chapters Eight & Nine
Chapters Ten & Eleven
Chapters Twelve & Thirteen
Chapters Fourteen, Fifteen & Sixteen
Chapters Seventeen, Eighteen & Nineteen
Epilogue
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1
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The book was part of a pair of autobiographies that Alex Haley was working on; the second was about ____.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Elijah Muhammad
J. Edgar Hoover
Harvey Milk
2
of 5
Malcolm suspects all reporters, including black ones, of doing what?
Selling out to advertisers
Lying for readership
Serving white America
Dumbing down the news
3
of 5
Many of Malcolm's personal thoughts in the autobiography come from things he wrote on scraps of paper with a ___.
Red pen
Blue magic marker
Broken pencil
Piece of chalk
4
of 5
How many people shoot and kill Malcolm X?
One
Two
Three
Four
5
of 5
Before his murder, Malcolm indicated that he thought someone ___ would be involved with his killing.
From the Nation of Islam
From his criminal past
With ties to the government
More powerful than the Nation
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