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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 word from "Down at the Cross" refers to people who engage in dishonest and fraudulent business dealings?
(a) Racketeers.
(b) Sheisters.
(c) Hucksters.
(d) Diffidents.

2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means great in importance, extent, or size?
(a) Malevolent.
(b) Monumental.
(c) Pixillated.
(d) Corporal.

3. The author tells the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," "Take no one's word for anything, including mine--but trust" what?
(a) "Your experience."
(b) "Your instincts."
(c) "Your intelligence."
(d) "Your soul."

4. The author states in "Down at the Cross," "I certainly could not discover any principled reason for not becoming a criminal, and it is not my poor, God-fearing parents who are to be indicted for the lack but" what?
(a) "My intelligence."
(b) "My faith."
(c) "The oppression of my people."
(d) "This society."

5. When was the Nation of Islam founded?
(a) July 4, 1936.
(b) July 4, 1940.
(c) July 4, 1930.
(d) July 4, 1961.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "You were born where you were born, and faced the future that you faced because" of what?

2. The author writes in "Down at the Cross," "From my own point of view, the fact of the Third Reich alone makes obsolete forever any question of" what?

3. What is the name of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. In describing white liberal attitudes in "Down at the Cross," the author states that "they could deal with the Negro as a symbol or a victim but has no real sense of him as" what?

5. For how long did the author remain on the pulpit as a Young Minister?

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