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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 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author describe the letter recipient as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) He was an emaciated baby.
(b) He was a small baby.
(c) He was a big baby.
(d) He was a mean baby.

2. The author writes to the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," "You come from a long line of" what?
(a) "Slaves."
(b) "Teachers."
(c) "Poets."
(d) "Carpenters."

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?
(a) Flirt with them.
(b) Step on them.
(c) Interrogate them.
(d) Reprimand them.

4. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?
(a) The end of segregation.
(b) The right for women to vote.
(c) The right for blacks to vote.
(d) The freedom of slaves.

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?
(a) "You were a man."
(b) "You were rich."
(c) "You were poor."
(d) "You were black."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author sign off in his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," " There is no reason for you to try to become like" what?

3. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have" what?

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

5. When did Rudyard Kipling live?

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