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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. After whom was the letter recipient named in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) After the author.
(b) After his father.
(c) After his godfather.
(d) After his grandfather.

2. When did E. Franklin Frazier help draft the UNESCO statement entitled The Race Question?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1945.

3. The author describes the recipient's face as being the same face of whom in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Your mother and grandmother."
(b) "Your great-grandfather."
(c) "Your mother and father."
(d) "Your father and my brother."

4. The author asserts in "Down at the Cross," "The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes--I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter altogether--is that white men do not want" what?
(a) "To actually pay heed to the voices of others."
(b) "Their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened."
(c) "To look themselves in the mirror and to know who they truly are."
(d) "To listen to history."

5. What caused the author's father's defeat in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "He couldn't stop his temper from exploding."
(b) "He didn't care for his family or his friends."
(c) "He really believed what what people said about him."
(d) "He was unaware of his destiny and fell behind."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe his ancestors picking in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. In "My Dungeon Shook," the author cites E. Franklin Frazier as describing a time when the blacks left the land and entered into what?

3. Where did Charles Dickens live?

4. Who is quoted as having said "It is better to marry than to burn" in "Down at the Cross"?

5. What does the author refer to as "the crime of which I accuse my country" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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