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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. Where does the author claim he was when a bartender refused to serve him and some friends in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) The J.F.K. airport.
(b) The Chicago O'Hare airport.
(c) The Sam Houston Airport.
(d) The La Guardia airport.
2. As the author describes growing up in Harlem in "Down at the Cross," he says, "In the same way that the girls were destined to gain as much weight as their mothers, the boys, it was clear, would" what?
(a) "Leave home and never return."
(b) "Become even lower than their fathers."
(c) "Rise no higher than their fathers."
(d) "Fall even further from grace."
3. How does the author describe female segregated restrooms in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) They say "White Ladies" and "Black Ladies."
(b) They say "White Women" and "Colored Ladies."
(c) They say "White Ladies" and "Colored Women."
(d) They say "White Women" and "Negro Women."
4. How does the author respond when asked by the female pastor, "Whose little boy are you?"
(a) "Why, yours."
(b) "God's."
(c) "Allah's."
(d) "David Baldwin's."
5. When was E. Franklin Frazier's book The Negro Family in the United States published?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1943.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author claims in "Down at the Cross," "All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only" what?
2. The author states in "Down at the Cross," "White people hold the power, which means that they are" what?
3. How does the author describe his feelings about "a separate black economy in America"?
4. What does the word "impertinent" mean in the context of "My Dungeon Shook"?
5. The author states in the beginning of "Down at the Cross" that he believed that God and what were synonymous?
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