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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 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was the author when two police officers amused themselves with frisking him, according to the story in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) 16.
(b) 19.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

3. The author writes to the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," "You come from a long line of" what?
(a) "Slaves."
(b) "Poets."
(c) "Teachers."
(d) "Carpenters."

4. To whom is the author writing in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) His son.
(b) His nephew.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

5. What is the name of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) John Baldwin.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) David Baldwin.
(d) George Baldwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word in "My Dungeon Shook" does the author define as meaning "that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it"?

2. Where did Charles Dickens live?

3. When did Rudyard Kipling live?

4. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "This innocent country set you down" where?

5. 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?

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