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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. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a seemingly self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated may proved to be true?
(a) Irony.
(b) Atonement.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Malaprop.

2. The author describes the recipient's face as being the same face of whom in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Your mother and grandmother."
(b) "Your great-grandfather."
(c) "Your father and my brother."
(d) "Your mother and father."

3. 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 II.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Vietnam War.

4. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom when?
(a) "Two hundred years too late."
(b) "One hundred years too soon."
(c) "Two hundred years too soon."
(d) "One hundred years too late."

5. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," " There is no reason for you to try to become like" what?
(a) "Me."
(b) "Your father."
(c) "Your ancestors."
(d) "White people."

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in "Down at the Cross," "White people hold the power, which means that they are" what?

2. After whom was the letter recipient named in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?

4. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have" what?

5. What word from "Down at the Cross" describes a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one?

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