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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 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?
(a) "Gone."
(b) "Black."
(c) "Fallen."
(d) "Aflame."
2. When did Charles Dickens die?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1899.
3. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that "we can make America" what?
(a) "Great again."
(b) "Better than it has ever been."
(c) "A beacon of yesterday."
(d) "What America must become."
4. How does the author respond when asked by the female pastor, "Whose little boy are you?"
(a) "David Baldwin's."
(b) "God's."
(c) "Allah's."
(d) "Why, yours."
5. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to extremely cruel and brutal behavior?
(a) Diligence.
(b) Apprehension.
(c) Inhumanity.
(d) Integrity.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author says of one of his ancestors in "My Dungeon Shook," "One of them said, the very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and" what?
2. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom when?
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. In "My Dungeon Shook," the author cites E. Franklin Frazier as describing a time when the blacks left the land and entered into what?
5. About how many years ago does the author describe the letter recipient being born in "My Dungeon Shook"?
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