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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. Where did Rudyard Kipling live?
(a) Canada.
(b) Ireland.
(c) England.
(d) France.

2. Where does the author describe listening to the Muslim speakers in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) 12th Street and Seventh Avenue.
(b) Delancey and Hickamore Streets.
(c) 125th Street and Seventh Avenue.
(d) Broadway and 45th Street.

3. How old was the author when he describes having gone through a "prolonged religious crisis" in the beginning of "Down at the Cross"?
(a) 19.
(b) 14.
(c) 10.
(d) 21.

4. When was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?
(a) January 1, 1863.
(b) January 1, 1862.
(c) January 1, 1865.
(d) January 1, 1864.

5. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," that "if you've loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange perspective on" what?
(a) "Time and human pain and effort."
(b) "A sense of love, peace, and justice."
(c) "Family and the meaning of life."
(d) "That there is fear everywhere."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe his father's life in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe" what?

3. What does the author describe his ancestors building in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. Whom does the author describe watching learn to walk in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. When did Charles Dickens die?

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