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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 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Rudyard Kipling live?
(a) Ireland.
(b) France.
(c) Canada.
(d) England.

2. 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."

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means to display something?
(a) Delineate.
(b) Interrogate.
(c) Exhibit.
(d) Inhibit.

4. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to desire and determination to achieve success?
(a) Exultation.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Cultivation.
(d) Deterioration.

5. As the author describes growing up in Harlem in "Down at the Cross," he says, "In the same way that the girls were destined to gain as much weight as their mothers, the boys, it was clear, would" what?
(a) "Become even lower than their fathers."
(b) "Fall even further from grace."
(c) "Rise no higher than their fathers."
(d) "Leave home and never return."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "perish" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. What must one become "concerning destruction and death," according to the author in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. How old was the author when he describes an encounter where a policeman made a racial slur as he passed in Manhattan in "Down at the Cross"?

4. What word from "Down at the Cross" refers to people who engage in dishonest and fraudulent business dealings?

5. Whom does the author describe as having stated that "the cry of 'violence' was not raised... when the Israelis fought to regain Israel, and, indeed, is raised only when black men indicate that they will fight for their rights"?

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