The Fire Next Time Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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The Fire Next Time Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

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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 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the author describes growing up in Harlem in "Down at the Cross," he says, "In the same way that the girls were destined to gain as much weight as their mothers, the boys, it was clear, would" what?
(a) "Rise no higher than their fathers."
(b) "Leave home and never return."
(c) "Fall even further from grace."
(d) "Become even lower than their fathers."

2. Of the girls in Harlem going through adolescence, the author says in "Down at the Cross," "They understood that they must act as God's" what?
(a) "Angels."
(b) "Watchmen."
(c) "Decoys."
(d) "Love."

3. How old was the author when he describes an encounter where a policeman made a racial slur as he passed in Manhattan in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) 13.
(b) 10.
(c) 19.
(d) 16.

4. The author indicates in "My Dungeon Shook" that "people find it very difficult to act on" what?
(a) "What they've forgotten."
(b) "Intuition."
(c) "What they know."
(d) "Faith."

5. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to desire and determination to achieve success?
(a) Deterioration.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Exultation.
(d) Cultivation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of a man did the U.S. Constitution once declare blacks to be?

2. How does the author describe the stock from which the letter recipient came in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. How many times does the author say he has begun his letter and torn it up in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. The author states in "Down at the Cross," "White people hold the power, which means that they are" what?

5. What does the word "unassailable" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?

(see the answer key)

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