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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. How does the author describe female segregated restrooms in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) They say "White Women" and "Negro Women."
(b) They say "White Ladies" and "Black Ladies."
(c) They say "White Women" and "Colored Ladies."
(d) They say "White Ladies" and "Colored Women."
2. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "Let him laugh and I see" what?
(a) "A long and dark tunnel into the fear that hides behind his soul."
(b) "A field of flowers and a vase of daisies."
(c) "A cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember."
(d) "A grain silo sitting at the edge of the desert for no reason."
3. How does the author sign off in his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Your uncle, James."
(b) "Your father."
(c) "Your son, James."
(d) "Your brother, James."
4. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to the condition of being lower in status or quality than others?
(a) Desolate.
(b) Complexity.
(c) Inferiority.
(d) Integrity.
5. The author writes in "Down at the Cross," "It was absolutely clear that the police would whip you and take you in as long as" what?
(a) "You were not one of them."
(b) "You were hiding something."
(c) "They could get away with it."
(d) "You were guilty."
Short Answer Questions
1. Whom does the author claim "no one has ever accused her of being bitter" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
2. In "Down at the Cross," what does the author define as "the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law"?
3. Whom does the author describe as having stated that "the cry of 'violence' was not raised... when the Israelis fought to regain Israel, and, indeed, is raised only when black men indicate that they will fight for their rights"?
4. What does the author describe as the subject of the Nation of Islam speeches he observed on the streets in "Down at the Cross"?
5. The author states in "Down at the Cross" that the "principles governing the rites and customs of the churches in which I grew up did not differ from the principles governing the rites and customs of other chuches, white. The principles were Blindness, Lonelines, and" what?
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