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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 qualities does the author claim Elijah Muhammad has invested in his followers in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) Worry and doubt.
(b) Caution and fear.
(c) Pride and serenity.
(d) Peace and humility.

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

3. How old was the author when he describes having gone through a "prolonged religious crisis" in the beginning of "Down at the Cross"?
(a) 21.
(b) 19.
(c) 14.
(d) 10.

4. What color clothing does the author describe the women wearing at Elijah Muhammad's home in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

5. What does the author describe feeling guilty about having in his pocket when he visited Elijah Muhammad in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) A tape recorder.
(c) A flask of whiskey.
(d) A notepad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe school revealing itself to be to the black community passing through adolescence in "Down at the Cross"?

2. In describing Elijah Muhammad in "Down at the Cross," the author notes, "The central quality in Elijah's face is" what?

3. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom when?

4. Where does the author describe the pimps and whores hanging out in Harlem in "Down at the Cross"?

5. The author claims that we owe the ministry of Elijah Muhammad to the fact that he witnessed what when he was five or six years old?

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