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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 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The authors writes in "Down at the Cross," "Yes, it does indeed mean something - something unspeakable - to be born, in a white country, and Anglo-Teutonic, antisexual country, black. You very soon, without knowing it, give up all hope of" what?
(a) "Inflation."
(b) "Redemption."
(c) "Communication."
(d) "Communion."

2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to desire and determination to achieve success?
(a) Ambition.
(b) Deterioration.
(c) Exultation.
(d) Cultivation.

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

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

5. In what periodical was "Down at the Cross" first published?
(a) Time.
(b) Reader's Digest.
(c) Publisher's Weekly.
(d) The New Yorker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to extremely cruel and brutal behavior?

2. In becoming a successful Young Minister, the author describes his rivalry with whom, in "Down at the Cross"?

3. The author urges the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook" to "imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars" what?

4. The author claims that we owe the ministry of Elijah Muhammad to the fact that he witnessed what when he was five or six years old?

5. Where did Homer live?

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