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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 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author conclude his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "I hope that you will forgive me."
(b) "I will see you on the morrow."
(c) "God bless you, James, and Godspeed."
(d) "I love you, dear James, and I send my love to the family."

2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means great in importance, extent, or size?
(a) Monumental.
(b) Malevolent.
(c) Corporal.
(d) Pixillated.

3. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "You were born where you were born, and faced the future that you faced because" of what?
(a) "You were a man."
(b) "You were poor."
(c) "You were black."
(d) "You were rich."

4. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?
(a) The right for women to vote.
(b) The end of segregation.
(c) The right for blacks to vote.
(d) The freedom of slaves.

5. In what war does the author describe many of his friends enlisting in the service to fight in the beginning of "Down at the Cross"?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Korean War.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author urges the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook" to "imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars" what?

2. What does the author claim the black man has functioned as in the white man's world in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "This innocent country set you down" where?

4. When was E. Franklin Frazier's book The Negro Family in the United States published?

5. The author states in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook," "We cannot be free until" what?

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