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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 writes in "Down at the Cross" that "the social treatment accorded even the most successful Negroes proved that one needed, in order to be free, something more than a bank account. One needed" what?
(a) "A handle, a lever, a means of inspiring fear."
(b) "Hope."
(c) "A mechanism to provoke change in the hearts of men."
(d) "A backdoor into white society."

2. The author states in the beginning of "Down at the Cross" that he believed that God and what were synonymous?
(a) Purity.
(b) Faith.
(c) Safety.
(d) Salvation.

3. For how long did the author remain on the pulpit as a Young Minister?
(a) Less than 6 months.
(b) Over 3 years.
(c) About 2 years.
(d) Less than a year.

4. What does the author claim to be the seeming "sum of our achievement" as humans, in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) The power to oppress one another.
(b) The power to exterminate ourselves.
(c) The power to kill nature.
(d) The power to enslave one another.

5. When dd Elijah Muhammad die?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook" that "the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is" what?

2. When was Elijah Muhammad born?

3. What does the word "bulwark" mean in "Down at the Cross"?

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

5. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe" what?

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