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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 claims in "My Dungeon Shook," "Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of" what?
(a) "The meaning of life."
(b) "Grief."
(c) "One's own reality."
(d) "Health and love."

2. What does the word "assuage" from "Down at the Cross" mean?
(a) To satisfy.
(b) To deter.
(c) To placate.
(d) To reassure.

3. The author writes in "Down at the Cross," "From my own point of view, the fact of the Third Reich alone makes obsolete forever any question of" what?
(a) "Black superiority."
(b) "Christian superiority."
(c) "Love."
(d) "White superiority."

4. 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?
(a) His mother's lynching.
(b) His uncle's execution.
(c) His father's lynching.
(d) His mother's rape.

5. In becoming a successful Young Minister, the author describes his rivalry with whom, in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) His father.
(b) His younger brother.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His older brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to extremely cruel and brutal behavior?

2. What does the word "perish" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means eager to fight or defiant?

4. How does the author describe his father's life in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. After the confrontation at the bar, the author says that one of his companions, a Korean War veteran, said that the bar had been the white man's fight too. How did the white man respond?

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