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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 claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that "we can make America" what?
(a) "A beacon of yesterday."
(b) "Better than it has ever been."
(c) "What America must become."
(d) "Great again."

2. 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) The Vietnam War.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Korean War.

3. What kind of athletic career does the author describe pursuing but not succeeding at in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Prize-fighting.
(c) Football.
(d) Baseball.

4. 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."

5. What word used by the author in "Down at the Cross" means relentless or unstoppable?
(a) Cultivated.
(b) Implacable.
(c) Advanced.
(d) Irredeemable.

Short Answer Questions

1. The authors writes in "Down at the Cross," "Yes, it does indeed mean something - something unspeakable - to be born, in a white country, and Anglo-Teutonic, antisexual country, black. You very soon, without knowing it, give up all hope of" what?

2. Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of what era?

3. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," I hear in his present laughter" what?

4. 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"?

5. What does the author say can be heard in the letter recipient's father's "laughter and in his speech and in his songs" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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