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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. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were" what?
(a) "On a road to success."
(b) "On the road to failure."
(c) "A worthless human being."
(d) "A part of the American Dream."

2. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "Let him laugh and I see" what?
(a) "A cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember."
(b) "A grain silo sitting at the edge of the desert for no reason."
(c) "A long and dark tunnel into the fear that hides behind his soul."
(d) "A field of flowers and a vase of daisies."

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to extremely cruel and brutal behavior?
(a) Integrity.
(b) Inhumanity.
(c) Apprehension.
(d) Diligence.

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

5. What word from "Down at the Cross" means something continuing without pause or interruption?
(a) Petulant.
(b) Explicit.
(c) Exuberant.
(d) Incessant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a seemingly self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated may proved to be true?

2. What does the author describe school revealing itself to be to the black community passing through adolescence in "Down at the Cross"?

3. How old was the author when he describes having gone through a "prolonged religious crisis" in the beginning of "Down at the Cross"?

4. How does the author sign off in his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," that "if you've loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange perspective on" what?

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