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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. In describing white liberal attitudes in "Down at the Cross," the author states that "they could deal with the Negro as a symbol or a victim but has no real sense of him as" what?
(a) "A political power."
(b) "A master."
(c) "A man."
(d) "An intellect."

2. Where did Charles Dickens live?
(a) Ireland.
(b) The United States.
(c) France.
(d) England.

3. 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?
(a) "Terror."
(b) "Love."
(c) "Sorrow."
(d) "Faith."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Elijah Muhammad born?

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

3. 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?

4. What does the author claim to be the seeming "sum of our achievement" as humans, in "Down at the Cross"?

5. For what work is Homer most known?

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