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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 does the author refer to as "the crime of which I accuse my country" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "They have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives."
(b) "They have turned their backs on the people they needed the most."
(c) "They have isolated themselves and taken strides to keep themselves as such."
(d) "They refuse to accept the truth of the black man's superiority."

2. What statement does the author make about freedom in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) "Freedom is no one's right."
(b) "Freedom is a virtue."
(c) "Freedom is deplorable."
(d) "Freedom is hard to bear."

3. What fraction of the population of the U.S. was made up of African Americans at the time when the author wrote "Down at the Cross"?
(a) 1/10th.
(b) 1/5th.
(c) 1/3rd.
(d) 1/9th.

4. What word from "Down at the Cross" refers to a confusing and difficult problem or question?
(a) Interrogation.
(b) Diaspora.
(c) Conundrum.
(d) Irony.

5. What organization did George Lincoln Rockwell found?
(a) The NAACP.
(b) The American Nazi Party.
(c) The Peace Corps.
(d) The Ku Klux Klan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the author when he describes an encounter where a policeman made a racial slur as he passed in Manhattan in "Down at the Cross"?

2. For what work is Homer most known?

3. The author describes the birth of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," saying "here you were: to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against" what?

4. Senator Robert Byrd was a former member of what organization?

5. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to extremely cruel and brutal behavior?

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