Q 01/05

What was Malcolm X's birth surname?

A) Langdon

B) Little

C) Shabazz

D) Sanders

Answer · why

B) Little

Little. When his parents bought a house in a white part of Lansing, the Littles were sued for eviction under a deed clause that barred its sale to non...

Q 02/05

What did the 'X' in Malcolm X stand for?

A) The mark enslaved ancestors signed with

B) The crossroads where he found Islam

C) His rejection of the Christian cross

D) The African family name he could never know

Answer · why

D) The African family name he could never know

The African family name he could never know. Nation of Islam members dropped the surnames that slaveholders had given their families, and kept the X u...

Q 03/05

In which city was Malcolm X born in 1925?

A) Omaha, Nebraska

B) Lansing, Michigan

C) Detroit, Michigan

D) Boston, Massachusetts

Answer · why

A) Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha, Nebraska. He was still a baby when Klan threats over his father's organising drove the family out, first to Milwaukee and then to Lansing, Mich...

Q 04/05

Malcolm's parents were admirers and local organisers for which Pan-African leader?

A) W. E. B. Du Bois

B) Kwame Nkrumah

C) Marcus Garvey

D) Booker T. Washington

Answer · why

C) Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey. His father Earl led the local chapter of Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association with his mother Louise as its secretary, and ...

Q 05/05

Police ruled the 1931 death of Malcolm's father an accident involving which vehicle?

A) A freight train

B) A delivery truck

C) A streetcar

D) A police car

Answer · why

C) A streetcar

A streetcar. Earl was found on the tracks, but his mother believed that white supremacists who had threatened him had murdered him.