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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 2.

Multiple Choice 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"?
(a) 13.
(b) 19.
(c) 16.
(d) 10.

2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a seemingly self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated may proved to be true?
(a) Atonement.
(b) Irony.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Malaprop.

3. 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?
(a) "A backdoor into white society."
(b) "A mechanism to provoke change in the hearts of men."
(c) "Hope."
(d) "A handle, a lever, a means of inspiring fear."

4. What does the word "perish" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) To expel.
(b) To enliven.
(c) To die.
(d) To distinguish.

5. The author tells the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," "Take no one's word for anything, including mine--but trust" what?
(a) "Your instincts."
(b) "Your experience."
(c) "Your intelligence."
(d) "Your soul."

Short Answer Questions

1. What qualities does the author claim Elijah Muhammad has invested in his followers in "Down at the Cross"?

2. During what years did Elijah Muhammad lead the Nation of Islam?

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

4. In becoming a successful Young Minister, the author describes his rivalry with whom, in "Down at the Cross"?

5. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "You were born where you were born, and faced the future that you faced because" of what?

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