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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the author describe listening to the Muslim speakers in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) 125th Street and Seventh Avenue.
(b) Delancey and Hickamore Streets.
(c) Broadway and 45th Street.
(d) 12th Street and Seventh Avenue.

2. What does the author describe feeling guilty about having in his pocket when he visited Elijah Muhammad in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) A tape recorder.
(b) A notepad.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) A flask of whiskey.

3. The author states in "Down at the Cross" that the "principles governing the rites and customs of the churches in which I grew up did not differ from the principles governing the rites and customs of other chuches, white. The principles were Blindness, Lonelines, and" what?
(a) "Love."
(b) "Faith."
(c) "Terror."
(d) "Sorrow."

4. Who is quoted as having said "It is better to marry than to burn" in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) St. Andrew.
(b) St. George.
(c) St. Peter.
(d) St. Paul.

5. 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."

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Down at the Cross," what does the author define as "the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law"?

2. What does the author say "catches up with kingdoms and crushes them" in "Down at the Cross"?

3. Of the girls in Harlem going through adolescence, the author says in "Down at the Cross," "They understood that they must act as God's" what?

4. What word from "Down at the Cross" means impossible to stop or prevent?

5. The author writes in "Down at the Cross" that "the social treatment accorded even the most successful Negroes proved that one needed, in order to be free, something more than a bank account. One needed" what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe his departure from Elijah Muhammad's home in "Down at the Cross"?

2. What does the author remark about the Holocaust in "Down at the Cross"?

3. What parallels does the author draw between his father and Elijah Muhammad in "Down at the Cross"?

4. How does the author compare his involvement in ministry with the thugs on the Avenue in "Down at the Cross"?

5. How does the author describe his religious faith to Elijah Muhammad in "Down at the Cross"?

6. What hypocrisies in Christianity and the Nation of Islam does Baldwin point out in "Down at the Cross"?

7. How would you describe the author's sense of anger in the beginning of "Down at the Cross"?

8. How would you describe the central subject and structure of the first part of "Down at the Cross"?

9. What does the author point out as the failings of Christianity and Islam in "Down at the Cross"?

10. In the second section of "Down at the Cross," the author points out many reasons that American society is not healed in relation to race. How does he propose it might become healed?

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