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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. In "Down at the Cross," what does the author define as "the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law"?
(a) "Power."
(b) "Legality."
(c) "Freedom."
(d) "White society."

2. What does the author describe his ancestors picking in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Tomatoes.
(c) Apples.
(d) Cotton.

3. What does the author claim the black man has functioned as in the white man's world in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) A token of inspiration.
(b) A feat to stand above.
(c) A fixed star.
(d) A slave.

4. When was E. Franklin Frazier elected as the first black president of the American Sociological Association?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1932.

5. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1859.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the author describes growing up in Harlem in "Down at the Cross," he says, "In the same way that the girls were destined to gain as much weight as their mothers, the boys, it was clear, would" what?

2. What author does the narrator describe beginning to read when he began losing his faith in "Down at the Cross"?

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

4. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," " There is no reason for you to try to become like" what?

5. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have" what?

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