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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. In describing Elijah Muhammad in "Down at the Cross," the author notes, "The central quality in Elijah's face is" what?
(a) "Love."
(b) "Joy."
(c) "Pain."
(d) "Tranquility."

2. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?
(a) The right for blacks to vote.
(b) The end of segregation.
(c) The freedom of slaves.
(d) The right for women to vote.

3. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom when?
(a) "Two hundred years too soon."
(b) "Two hundred years too late."
(c) "One hundred years too soon."
(d) "One hundred years too late."

4. Where did Homer live?
(a) Greece.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Rome.
(d) France.

5. 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) "Watchmen."
(b) "Decoys."
(c) "Angels."
(d) "Love."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Rudyard Kipling live?

2. What does the author describe his ancestors picking in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. What word from "Down at the Cross" refers to a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument?

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

5. Who is quoted as having said "It is better to marry than to burn" in "Down at the Cross"?

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