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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. Who founded the Nation of Islam?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Assata Shakur.
(c) Wallace D. Ford.
(d) James Whitney.

2. What word from "Down at the Cross" means something continuing without pause or interruption?
(a) Incessant.
(b) Exuberant.
(c) Petulant.
(d) Explicit.

3. In what periodical was "Down at the Cross" first published?
(a) Publisher's Weekly.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Time.
(d) Reader's Digest.

4. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "This innocent country set you down" where?
(a) "In a field of grass."
(b) "In a circle."
(c) "In a ghetto."
(d) "In a factory."

5. What does the author claim to be the seeming "sum of our achievement" as humans, in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) The power to enslave one another.
(b) The power to kill nature.
(c) The power to oppress one another.
(d) The power to exterminate ourselves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of athletic career does the author describe pursuing but not succeeding at in "Down at the Cross"?

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to desire and determination to achieve success?

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

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

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