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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 Elijah Muhammad born?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1921.

2. How does the author respond when asked by the female pastor, "Whose little boy are you?"
(a) "God's."
(b) "Allah's."
(c) "Why, yours."
(d) "David Baldwin's."

3. The author writes in "Down at the Cross," "It was absolutely clear that the police would whip you and take you in as long as" what?
(a) "They could get away with it."
(b) "You were guilty."
(c) "You were hiding something."
(d) "You were not one of them."

4. Where did Charles Dickens live?
(a) England.
(b) The United States.
(c) France.
(d) Ireland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During what years did Elijah Muhammad lead the Nation of Islam?

2. What does the author claim the black man has functioned as in the white man's world in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. What color clothing does the author describe the women wearing at Elijah Muhammad's home in "Down at the Cross"?

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

5. In describing white liberal attitudes in "Down at the Cross," the author states that "they could deal with the Negro as a symbol or a victim but has no real sense of him as" what?

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