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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. What caused the author's father's defeat in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "He couldn't stop his temper from exploding."
(b) "He really believed what what people said about him."
(c) "He didn't care for his family or his friends."
(d) "He was unaware of his destiny and fell behind."

2. Of white people, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "You must accept them and accept them with" what?
(a) Faith.
(b) Clarity.
(c) Resentment.
(d) Love.

3. In "Down at the Cross," the author describes the adolescent changes that the girls undergo, saying that they no longer tease the boys but do what to them instead?
(a) Interrogate them.
(b) Step on them.
(c) Flirt with them.
(d) Reprimand them.

4. How does the author respond when asked by the female pastor, "Whose little boy are you?"
(a) "David Baldwin's."
(b) "Allah's."
(c) "God's."
(d) "Why, yours."

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) "Rise no higher than their fathers."
(c) "Leave home and never return."
(d) "Fall even further from grace."

Short Answer 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?

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

3. To whom is the author writing in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. What does the word "unassailable" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. Baldwin writes in "Down at the Cross," "The price of the liberation of the white people is" what?

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