View a FREE sample

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. As the author describes growing up in Harlem in "Down at the Cross," he says, "In the same way that the girls were destined to gain as much weight as their mothers, the boys, it was clear, would" what?
(a) "Fall even further from grace."
(b) "Rise no higher than their fathers."
(c) "Become even lower than their fathers."
(d) "Leave home and never return."

2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to the condition of being lower in status or quality than others?
(a) Complexity.
(b) Inferiority.
(c) Integrity.
(d) Desolate.

3. Where does the author describe the pimps and whores hanging out in Harlem in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) The Avenue.
(b) Delancey.
(c) Broad St.
(d) Broadway.

4. How does the author describe the stock from which the letter recipient came in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Elegant stock."
(b) "Intelligent, handy stock."
(c) "Sturdy, peasant stock."
(d) "Crafty and deceitful stock."

5. What word from "Down at the Cross" means impossible to stop or prevent?
(a) Deplorable.
(b) Inexcusable.
(c) Plausible.
(d) Inexorable.

Short Answer 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"?

2. 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?

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

5. In describing his dinner at Elijah Muhammad's home, the author states, "I began to see that Elijah's power came from his" what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 359 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample