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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 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For what work is Homer most known?
(a) The Poet's Destiny.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) The Odyssey.
(d) The Cave.

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

4. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a firm upright support for a superstructure?
(a) Mast.
(b) Chattel.
(c) Pillar.
(d) Ballast.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author conclude his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. What does the author refer to as "the crime of which I accuse my country" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. Of white people, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "You must accept them and accept them with" what?

4. In what periodical was "Down at the Cross" first published?

5. 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?

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