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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 states in "Down at the Cross" that the "principles governing the rites and customs of the churches in which I grew up did not differ from the principles governing the rites and customs of other chuches, white. The principles were Blindness, Lonelines, and" what?
(a) "Terror."
(b) "Sorrow."
(c) "Faith."
(d) "Love."
2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to extremely cruel and brutal behavior?
(a) Diligence.
(b) Integrity.
(c) Inhumanity.
(d) Apprehension.
3. Where does the author claim he was when a bartender refused to serve him and some friends in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) The J.F.K. airport.
(b) The La Guardia airport.
(c) The Chicago O'Hare airport.
(d) The Sam Houston Airport.
4. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook," "Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of" what?
(a) "Grief."
(b) "One's own reality."
(c) "The meaning of life."
(d) "Health and love."
5. 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) "To actually pay heed to the voices of others."
(d) "Their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened."
Short Answer Questions
1. The author writes in "Down at the Cross," "It was absolutely clear that the police would whip you and take you in as long as" what?
2. What kind of athletic career does the author describe pursuing but not succeeding at in "Down at the Cross"?
3. What does the author describe his ancestors picking in "My Dungeon Shook"?
4. The author asserts in "Down at the Cross" that "a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be" what?
5. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook" that "the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is" what?
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