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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. The author claims in "Down at the Cross" that two things caused him to begin listening to the Muslim speakers. What was the second thing?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) His father's death.
(c) The struggle for power.
(d) The intensity of the crowds.
2. 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"?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Louis Farrakhan.
(c) Elijah Muhammad.
(d) Wallace Fard Muhammad.
3. Of white people, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "You must accept them and accept them with" what?
(a) Resentment.
(b) Faith.
(c) Clarity.
(d) Love.
4. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "Let him laugh and I see" what?
(a) "A cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember."
(b) "A long and dark tunnel into the fear that hides behind his soul."
(c) "A field of flowers and a vase of daisies."
(d) "A grain silo sitting at the edge of the desert for no reason."
5. Where was "My Dungeon Shook" first published?
(a) Time magazine.
(b) The Progressive.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Reader's Digest.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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"?
2. 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"?
3. How does the author describe his father's life in "My Dungeon Shook"?
4. The author writes in "Down at the Cross" that "the social treatment accorded even the most successful Negroes proved that one needed, in order to be free, something more than a bank account. One needed" what?
5. What does the author describe his ancestors building in "My Dungeon Shook"?
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