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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 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 power of attorney."
(b) "The ability to communicate with them."
(c) "The ability for empathy."
(d) "The fear of your power to retaliate."
2. When did Rudyard Kipling live?
(a) 1802-1880.
(b) 1899-1959.
(c) 1798-1856.
(d) 1865-1936.
3. The author states in "Down at the Cross," "I certainly could not discover any principled reason for not becoming a criminal, and it is not my poor, God-fearing parents who are to be indicted for the lack but" what?
(a) "My intelligence."
(b) "My faith."
(c) "The oppression of my people."
(d) "This society."
4. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," " There is no reason for you to try to become like" what?
(a) "Your ancestors."
(b) "White people."
(c) "Me."
(d) "Your father."
5. How does the author respond when asked by the female pastor, "Whose little boy are you?"
(a) "God's."
(b) "Allah's."
(c) "Why, yours."
(d) "David Baldwin's."
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Down at the Cross," what does the author define as "the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law"?
2. How old was the author when he describes having gone through a "prolonged religious crisis" in the beginning of "Down at the Cross"?
3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a seemingly self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated may proved to be true?
4. How does the author sign off in his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?
5. 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?
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