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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 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 look themselves in the mirror and to know who they truly are."
(b) "Their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened."
(c) "To listen to history."
(d) "To actually pay heed to the voices of others."

2. When did Elijah Muhammad tell the author that the white man's time had been up, but that it had been the will of Allah that the black man be redeemed by his white masters?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1919.

3. The author claims in "Down at the Cross" that two things caused him to begin listening to the Muslim speakers. What was the first thing?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Police.
(d) The Presidential elections.

4. Where did Rudyard Kipling live?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) Canada.
(d) Ireland.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the author's father's defeat in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. How does the author describe the recipient's character in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

4. What kind of athletic career does the author describe pursuing but not succeeding at in "Down at the Cross"?

5. What is the name of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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