Q 01/05

What was Malcolm X's birth surname?

A) Langdon

B) Little

C) Shabazz

D) Sanders

Answer · why

B) Little

He discarded it as 'the white slavemaster name' and later took the name el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz.

Q 02/05

According to Malcolm X, what did the 'X' he adopted symbolise?

A) The ten commandments of the Nation

B) A cross he refused to carry

C) His illiteracy at birth

D) The African family name he could never know

Answer · why

D) The African family name he could never know

The Nation of Islam had followers use X until their 'original name' was revealed to them.

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

His family fled to Milwaukee and then Lansing after Ku Klux Klan threats over his father's activism.

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

His father Earl led the local Universal Negro Improvement Association and his mother was its branch reporter.

Q 05/05

Malcolm's mother believed his father had been murdered by which white supremacist group?

A) The Black Legion

B) The White Citizens' Council

C) The Ku Klux Klan

D) The Silver Shirts

Answer · why

A) The Black Legion

Earl's 1931 death was officially ruled a streetcar accident; a life insurer refused to pay, claiming suicide.