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

2. 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?
(a) Flirt with them.
(b) Step on them.
(c) Reprimand them.
(d) Interrogate them.

3. What word from "Down at the Cross" means something continuing without pause or interruption?
(a) Petulant.
(b) Explicit.
(c) Incessant.
(d) Exuberant.

4. What does the author refer to as "the crime of which I accuse my country" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "They refuse to accept the truth of the black man's superiority."
(b) "They have turned their backs on the people they needed the most."
(c) "They have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives."
(d) "They have isolated themselves and taken strides to keep themselves as such."

5. In what periodical was "Down at the Cross" first published?
(a) Publisher's Weekly.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Reader's Digest.
(d) Time.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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"?

3. The author urges the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook" to "imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars" what?

4. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to the condition of being lower in status or quality than others?

5. 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"?

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