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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. 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?
(a) Flirt with them.
(b) Step on them.
(c) Interrogate them.
(d) Reprimand them.
2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to desire and determination to achieve success?
(a) Deterioration.
(b) Exultation.
(c) Cultivation.
(d) Ambition.
3. What does the author describe his ancestors building in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Factories.
(b) Cars.
(c) Skyscrapers.
(d) Railroads.
4. Where was the author going when he crossed Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and the policeman made a racial slur toward him in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) To his high school.
(b) To a Broadway performance.
(c) To the Institute.
(d) To the 42nd Street Library.
5. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe" what?
(a) "That you are attainable."
(b) "What white people say about you."
(c) "That your life is fluid."
(d) "That you are destined for greatness."
Short Answer Questions
1. What word in "My Dungeon Shook" does the author define as meaning "that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it"?
2. In describing white liberal attitudes in "Down at the Cross," the author states that "they could deal with the Negro as a symbol or a victim but has no real sense of him as" what?
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 describe female segregated restrooms in "Down at the Cross"?
5. The author indicates in "My Dungeon Shook" that "people find it very difficult to act on" what?
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