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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. How does the author describe his feelings about "a separate black economy in America"?
(a) "A true possibility if there were enough cooperation."
(b) "A cautionary warning."
(c) "Willfull, and even mischievous nonsense."
(d) "An ideal to attain."

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) A flask of whiskey.
(d) Cigarettes.

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

4. When did Elijah Muhammad tell the author that the white man's time had been up, but that it had been the will of Allah that the black man be redeemed by his white masters?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1919.

5. 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) Wallace Fard Muhammad.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Louis Farrakhan.
(d) Elijah Muhammad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does the narrator describe beginning to read when he began losing his faith in "Down at the Cross"?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the racial perspectives in the Nation of Islam's belief system?

2. How does the author describe the setting of Elijah Muhammad's home in "Down at the Cross"?

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

4. What does the author describe discussing with his driver after leaving Elijah Muhammad's home in "Down at the Cross"?

5. What causes the author irritation during his dinner at Elijah Muhammad's home?

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

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

8. What parallels does the author draw between Christianity and Islam in "Down at the Cross"?

9. What is noteworthy about the quotes that open "Down at the Cross"?

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

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