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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 say "catches up with kingdoms and crushes them" in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) "Power."
(b) "God."
(c) "Time."
(d) "Judgment."

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

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

4. How late was the author when he arrived for dinner at Elijah Muhammad's home?
(a) 30 minutes late.
(b) 45 minute late.
(c) 15 minutes late.
(d) 1 hour late.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author describe having dinner at Elijah Muhammad's home in "Down at the Cross"?

2. Whom does the author describe as having stated that "the cry of 'violence' was not raised... when the Israelis fought to regain Israel, and, indeed, is raised only when black men indicate that they will fight for their rights"?

3. 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?

4. What must one become "concerning destruction and death," according to the author in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. Where was "My Dungeon Shook" first published?

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