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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. When was the Nation of Islam founded?
(a) July 4, 1936.
(b) July 4, 1940.
(c) July 4, 1930.
(d) July 4, 1961.
2. The author claims in "Down at the Cross" that two things caused him to begin listening to the Muslim speakers. What was the first thing?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Presidential elections.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) The Police.
3. Where does the author claim he was when a bartender refused to serve him and some friends in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) The Chicago O'Hare airport.
(b) The Sam Houston Airport.
(c) The La Guardia airport.
(d) The J.F.K. airport.
4. What does the word "unassailable" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Unable to be devoured.
(b) Unable to be attacked or defeated.
(c) Capable of logic and enterprise.
(d) Unable to be dissuaded.
5. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "Let him laugh and I see" what?
(a) "A cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember."
(b) "A long and dark tunnel into the fear that hides behind his soul."
(c) "A grain silo sitting at the edge of the desert for no reason."
(d) "A field of flowers and a vase of daisies."
Short Answer Questions
1. How late was the author when he arrived for dinner at Elijah Muhammad's home?
2. The author describes the recipient's face as being the same face of whom in "My Dungeon Shook"?
3. What does the author claim is the only thing to "cause any of those people to treat you as they presumably wanted to be treated" in "Down at the Cross"?
4. The author writes in "Down at the Cross," "From my own point of view, the fact of the Third Reich alone makes obsolete forever any question of" what?
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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