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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. The author urges the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook" to "imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars" what?
(a) "Fallen."
(b) "Gone."
(c) "Black."
(d) "Aflame."

2. What does the author claim is the only thing to "cause any of those people to treat you as they presumably wanted to be treated" in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) "The ability to communicate with them."
(b) "The fear of your power to retaliate."
(c) "The power of attorney."
(d) "The ability for empathy."

3. What word from "Down at the Cross" describes a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one?
(a) Exaltation.
(b) Delineation.
(c) Propagation.
(d) Metamorphosis.

4. What does the author claim to act is to be in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Complacent.
(b) Demanding.
(c) Impertinent.
(d) Committed.

5. How late was the author when he arrived for dinner at Elijah Muhammad's home?
(a) 45 minute late.
(b) 15 minutes late.
(c) 30 minutes late.
(d) 1 hour late.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Down at the Cross," the author describes the adolescent changes that the girls undergo, saying that they no longer tease the boys but do what to them instead?

3. How old was the author when he describes an encounter where a policeman made a racial slur as he passed in Manhattan in "Down at the Cross"?

4. 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?

5. In becoming a successful Young Minister, the author describes his rivalry with whom, in "Down at the Cross"?

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