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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. What does the author claim to be the seeming "sum of our achievement" as humans, in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) The power to enslave one another.
(b) The power to exterminate ourselves.
(c) The power to kill nature.
(d) The power to oppress one another.

2. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," I hear in his present laughter" what?
(a) "His laughter as a child."
(b) "The singing of birds of yesterday."
(c) "The laughter of tomorrow."
(d) "The gravelly voice of our father."

3. How does the author describe the letter recipient as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) He was a small baby.
(b) He was an emaciated baby.
(c) He was a big baby.
(d) He was a mean baby.

4. During what years did Elijah Muhammad lead the Nation of Islam?
(a) 1930-1945.
(b) 1941-1975.
(c) 1934-1975.
(d) 1936-1946.

5. In "Down at the Cross," the author describes the adolescent changes that the girls undergo, saying that they no longer tease the boys but do what to them instead?
(a) Reprimand them.
(b) Flirt with them.
(c) Interrogate them.
(d) Step on them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the author when he describes an encounter where a policeman made a racial slur as he passed in Manhattan in "Down at the Cross"?

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?

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

4. 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?

5. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?

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