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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 "My Dungeon Shook" means great in importance, extent, or size?
(a) Malevolent.
(b) Corporal.
(c) Monumental.
(d) Pixillated.

2. How does the author describe his father's life in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Ambitious.
(b) Terrible.
(c) Impressive.
(d) Bombastic.

3. What caused the author's father's defeat in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "He couldn't stop his temper from exploding."
(b) "He was unaware of his destiny and fell behind."
(c) "He really believed what what people said about him."
(d) "He didn't care for his family or his friends."

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

5. In what war does the author describe many of his friends enlisting in the service to fight in the beginning of "Down at the Cross"?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) World War II.
(d) The Korean War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Homer live?

2. The author claims that we owe the ministry of Elijah Muhammad to the fact that he witnessed what when he was five or six years old?

3. When was E. Franklin Frazier's book The Negro Family in the United States published?

4. After the confrontation at the bar, the author says that one of his companions, a Korean War veteran, said that the bar had been the white man's fight too. How did the white man respond?

5. What color clothing does the author describe the women wearing at Elijah Muhammad's home in "Down at the Cross"?

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