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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) Capable of logic and enterprise.
(b) Unable to be attacked or defeated.
(c) Unable to be devoured.
(d) Unable to be dissuaded.

2. The author says of one of his ancestors in "My Dungeon Shook," "One of them said, the very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and" what?
(a) "My chains fell off."
(b) "I was engulfed."
(c) "I suddenly saw the light."
(d) "I was given faith."

3. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were" what?
(a) "On a road to success."
(b) "A part of the American Dream."
(c) "A worthless human being."
(d) "On the road to failure."

4. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," " There is no reason for you to try to become like" what?
(a) "Me."
(b) "Your father."
(c) "White people."
(d) "Your ancestors."

5. Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of what era?
(a) The Edwardian era.
(b) The modernist era.
(c) The Renaissance.
(d) The Victorian era.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many times does the author say he has begun his letter and torn it up in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. What word from "Down at the Cross" refers to a large area of unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia?

4. How old was the author when two police officers amused themselves with frisking him, according to the story in "Down at the Cross"?

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?

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