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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. When did James Baldwin die?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1975.

2. The author indicates in "My Dungeon Shook" that "people find it very difficult to act on" what?
(a) "What they've forgotten."
(b) "Intuition."
(c) "What they know."
(d) "Faith."

3. What does the author say "changes, totally and forever, the nature of reality and brings into devastating question the true meaning of man's history" in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) "Hope itself."
(b) "The threat of universal exctinction."
(c) "The threat of social evolution."
(d) "The ambition toward a freer world."

4. What does the author say can be heard in the letter recipient's father's "laughter and in his speech and in his songs" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Joy.
(b) Civility.
(c) Patience.
(d) Tears.

5. To whom is the author writing in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) His father.
(b) His nephew.
(c) His son.
(d) His brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to desire and determination to achieve success?

2. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook" that "the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is" what?

3. When did Charles Dickens die?

4. About how many years ago does the author describe the letter recipient being born in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "Let him laugh and I see" what?

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