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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 writes to the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," "You come from a long line of" what?
(a) "Poets."
(b) "Carpenters."
(c) "Teachers."
(d) "Slaves."

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

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a seemingly self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated may proved to be true?
(a) Atonement.
(b) Irony.
(c) Malaprop.
(d) Paradox.

4. When did Charles Dickens die?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1899.

5. What does the word "bulwark" mean in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) A chain.
(b) A defensive wall.
(c) A rope attached to a roof.
(d) A fencing sword.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was W.E.B. Du Bois born?

2. The author states in "Down at the Cross" that the "principles governing the rites and customs of the churches in which I grew up did not differ from the principles governing the rites and customs of other chuches, white. The principles were Blindness, Lonelines, and" what?

3. Whom does the author describe watching learn to walk in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. What word from "Down at the Cross" refers to an idiosyncratic belief that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument?

5. Where was James Baldwin when he died?

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