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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. The author describes the recipient's face as being the same face of whom in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Your mother and grandmother."
(b) "Your mother and father."
(c) "Your great-grandfather."
(d) "Your father and my brother."

2. The author puts forth the Nation of Islam's belief that the white man's rule will be ended in how much time in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) 10-15 years.
(b) 100 years.
(c) 5-10 years.
(d) 50-60 years.

3. About how many years ago does the author describe the letter recipient being born in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) 10 years ago.
(b) 14 years ago.
(c) 16 years ago.
(d) 20 years ago.

4. The author states in the beginning of "Down at the Cross" that he believed that God and what were synonymous?
(a) Safety.
(b) Purity.
(c) Faith.
(d) Salvation.

5. What does the author say "changes, totally and forever, the nature of reality and brings into devastating question the true meaning of man's history" in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) "The threat of universal exctinction."
(b) "Hope itself."
(c) "The threat of social evolution."
(d) "The ambition toward a freer world."

Short Answer Questions

1. About how old does the author describe the female pastor as being when he met her in "Down at the Cross"?

2. What does the word "assuage" from "Down at the Cross" mean?

3. How old was the author when two police officers amused themselves with frisking him, according to the story in "Down at the Cross"?

4. When was E. Franklin Frazier elected as the first black president of the American Sociological Association?

5. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," " There is no reason for you to try to become like" what?

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