1. What word from "Down at the Cross" refers to a confusing and difficult problem or question?
(a) Interrogation.
(b) Irony.
(c) Diaspora.
(d) Conundrum.

2. Where does the author describe having dinner at Elijah Muhammad's home in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Oakland.

3. What does the word "unassailable" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Capable of logic and enterprise.
(b) Unable to be dissuaded.
(c) Unable to be attacked or defeated.
(d) Unable to be devoured.

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

5. Of the girls in Harlem going through adolescence, the author says in "Down at the Cross," "They understood that they must act as God's" what?
(a) "Watchmen."
(b) "Love."
(c) "Angels."
(d) "Decoys."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What organization did George Lincoln Rockwell found?

3. In describing his dinner at Elijah Muhammad's home, the author states, "I began to see that Elijah's power came from his" what?

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

5. When dd Elijah Muhammad die?

(see the answer key)

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