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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 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color clothing does the author describe the women wearing at Elijah Muhammad's home in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) White.

2. What word from "Down at the Cross" means something continuing without pause or interruption?
(a) Incessant.
(b) Petulant.
(c) Exuberant.
(d) Explicit.

3. Where was the author going when he crossed Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and the policeman made a racial slur toward him in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) To his high school.
(b) To the Institute.
(c) To the 42nd Street Library.
(d) To a Broadway performance.

4. What word from"Down at the Cross" means characterized by refusal or compromise to abandon an extreme position or attitude?
(a) Allegiance.
(b) Intransigence.
(c) Deplorability.
(d) Petulence.

5. On what day of the week does the author describe visiting Elijah Muhammad in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Monday.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Dred Scott decision reached?

2. What does the author claim is the only thing to "cause any of those people to treat you as they presumably wanted to be treated" in "Down at the Cross"?

3. The author indicates in "My Dungeon Shook" that "people find it very difficult to act on" what?

4. When did E. Franklin Frazier help draft the UNESCO statement entitled The Race Question?

5. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have" what?

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