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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. Where was the author going when he crossed Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and the policeman made a racial slur toward him in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) To his high school.
(b) To a Broadway performance.
(c) To the Institute.
(d) To the 42nd Street Library.

2. When was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?
(a) January 1, 1864.
(b) January 1, 1865.
(c) January 1, 1862.
(d) January 1, 1863.

3. How many times does the author say he has begun his letter and torn it up in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) 2 times.
(b) 4 times.
(c) 3 times.
(d) 5 times.

4. Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of what era?
(a) The Edwardian era.
(b) The modernist era.
(c) The Victorian era.
(d) The Renaissance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author conclude his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?

3. What does the author say "changes, totally and forever, the nature of reality and brings into devastating question the true meaning of man's history" in "Down at the Cross"?

4. What word used by the author in "Down at the Cross" means relentless or unstoppable?

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?

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