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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Down At The Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind" – Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from "Down at the Cross" means something continuing without pause or interruption?
(a) Incessant.
(b) Exuberant.
(c) Explicit.
(d) Petulant.

2. What kind of athletic career does the author describe pursuing but not succeeding at in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Prize-fighting.
(c) Football.
(d) Baseball.

3. The author states in "Down at the Cross" that the "principles governing the rites and customs of the churches in which I grew up did not differ from the principles governing the rites and customs of other chuches, white. The principles were Blindness, Lonelines, and" what?
(a) "Faith."
(b) "Love."
(c) "Sorrow."
(d) "Terror."

4. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that "we can make America" what?
(a) "What America must become."
(b) "Great again."
(c) "Better than it has ever been."
(d) "A beacon of yesterday."

5. Who founded the Nation of Islam?
(a) James Whitney.
(b) Assata Shakur.
(c) Wallace D. Ford.
(d) Malcolm X.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe school revealing itself to be to the black community passing through adolescence in "Down at the Cross"?

2. What does the author claim is the only thing to "cause any of those people to treat you as they presumably wanted to be treated" in "Down at the Cross"?

3. In describing his dinner at Elijah Muhammad's home, the author states, "I began to see that Elijah's power came from his" what?

4. When did Rudyard Kipling live?

5. Where does the author describe the pimps and whores hanging out in Harlem in "Down at the Cross"?

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