View a FREE sample

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 father and my brother."
(c) "Your great-grandfather."
(d) "Your mother and father."

2. The author asserts in "Down at the Cross," "The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes--I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter altogether--is that white men do not want" what?
(a) "To listen to history."
(b) "To look themselves in the mirror and to know who they truly are."
(c) "Their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened."
(d) "To actually pay heed to the voices of others."

3. 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) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 19.

4. How does the author describe the stock from which the letter recipient came in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Intelligent, handy stock."
(b) "Sturdy, peasant stock."
(c) "Crafty and deceitful stock."
(d) "Elegant stock."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes to the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," "You come from a long line of" what?

2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to the condition of being lower in status or quality than others?

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

4. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a firm upright support for a superstructure?

5. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 292 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample