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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. What kind of athletic career does the author describe pursuing but not succeeding at in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) Prize-fighting.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Football.
(d) Baseball.

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) "Their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened."
(b) "To look themselves in the mirror and to know who they truly are."
(c) "To actually pay heed to the voices of others."
(d) "To listen to history."

3. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," " There is no reason for you to try to become like" what?
(a) "Your father."
(b) "Me."
(c) "White people."
(d) "Your ancestors."

4. The author states in "Down at the Cross" that what "and heroism have been made synonymous except when it comes to blacks"?
(a) "Violence."
(b) "Power."
(c) "Strength."
(d) "Love."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a seemingly self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated may proved to be true?

2. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe" what?

3. How does the author sign off in his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. The author writes in "Down at the Cross," "From my own point of view, the fact of the Third Reich alone makes obsolete forever any question of" what?

5. During what years did Elijah Muhammad lead the Nation of Islam?

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