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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say "catches up with kingdoms and crushes them" in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) "God."
(b) "Judgment."
(c) "Time."
(d) "Power."

2. Whom does the author describe as having stated that "the cry of 'violence' was not raised... when the Israelis fought to regain Israel, and, indeed, is raised only when black men indicate that they will fight for their rights"?
(a) Elijah Muhammad.
(b) Wallace Fard Muhammad.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Louis Farrakhan.

3. The author states in "Down at the Cross," "I certainly could not discover any principled reason for not becoming a criminal, and it is not my poor, God-fearing parents who are to be indicted for the lack but" what?
(a) "The oppression of my people."
(b) "My intelligence."
(c) "This society."
(d) "My faith."

4. 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) "An intellect."
(b) "A man."
(c) "A master."
(d) "A political power."

5. The author states in "Down at the Cross" that what "and heroism have been made synonymous except when it comes to blacks"?
(a) "Strength."
(b) "Violence."
(c) "Love."
(d) "Power."

6. What word used by the author in "Down at the Cross" means relentless or unstoppable?
(a) Implacable.
(b) Cultivated.
(c) Advanced.
(d) Irredeemable.

7. The author writes in "Down at the Cross," "It was absolutely clear that the police would whip you and take you in as long as" what?
(a) "You were hiding something."
(b) "You were guilty."
(c) "You were not one of them."
(d) "They could get away with it."

8. 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?
(a) His father's lynching.
(b) His mother's lynching.
(c) His mother's rape.
(d) His uncle's execution.

9. What word from "Down at the Cross" refers to a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument?
(a) Protagonist.
(b) Demagogue.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Pedagogue.

10. The author states in "Down at the Cross," "White people hold the power, which means that they are" what?
(a) "Inferior to blacks."
(b) "Selfish."
(c) "Free."
(d) "Superior to blacks."

11. Where does the author claim he was when a bartender refused to serve him and some friends in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) The Chicago O'Hare airport.
(b) The Sam Houston Airport.
(c) The La Guardia airport.
(d) The J.F.K. airport.

12. When did the Tunisians rise up against the French, according to the author in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1919.

13. The author claims in "Down at the Cross" that two things caused him to begin listening to the Muslim speakers. What was the first thing?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The Police.
(c) World War II.
(d) The Presidential elections.

14. The author asserts in "Down at the Cross" that "a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be" what?
(a) "Ignorant."
(b) "Isolated."
(c) "Spineless."
(d) "Scared."

15. What word from "Down at the Cross" describes a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one?
(a) Exaltation.
(b) Delineation.
(c) Propagation.
(d) Metamorphosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Elijah Muhammad born?

2. What kind of athletic career does the author describe pursuing but not succeeding at in "Down at the Cross"?

3. In "Down at the Cross," the author describes the adolescent changes that the girls undergo, saying that they no longer tease the boys but do what to them instead?

4. After the confrontation at the bar, the author says that one of his companions, a Korean War veteran, said that the bar had been the white man's fight too. How did the white man respond?

5. Where does the author describe the pimps and whores hanging out in Harlem in "Down at the Cross"?

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