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

2. How does the author sign off in his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Your uncle, James."
(b) "Your brother, James."
(c) "Your son, James."
(d) "Your father."

3. What author does the narrator describe beginning to read when he began losing his faith in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) Nietzche.
(b) Homer.
(c) Kant.
(d) Dostoevski.

4. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," I hear in his present laughter" what?
(a) "The laughter of tomorrow."
(b) "The singing of birds of yesterday."
(c) "The gravelly voice of our father."
(d) "His laughter as a child."

5. 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."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means to display something?

3. 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?

4. How old was the author when two police officers amused themselves with frisking him, according to the story in "Down at the Cross"?

5. The author states in the beginning of "Down at the Cross" that he believed that God and what were synonymous?

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