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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 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author describes the recipient's face as being the same face of whom in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Your father and my brother."
(b) "Your mother and father."
(c) "Your great-grandfather."
(d) "Your mother and grandmother."

2. Baldwin writes in "Down at the Cross," "The price of the liberation of the white people is" what?
(a) "The segregation of the blacks."
(b) "The enslavement of the blacks."
(c) "The liberation of the blacks."
(d) "The integration of the blacks."

3. For what reason does the author claim of white Americans "and this is why the darkness of my skin so intimidates them" in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) "White Americans do not believe in death."
(b) "White Americans are blind."
(c) "White Americans are fearful of the dark."
(d) "White Americans are fearful of God."

4. The author claims of white people in "My Dungeon Shook," "They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which" what?
(a) "They created themselves."
(b) "They never wanted."
(c) "They do not understand."
(d) "They cannot escape."

5. How much of a man did the U.S. Constitution once declare blacks to be?
(a) 3/5ths of a man.
(b) 2/3rds of a man.
(c) 1/2 of a man.
(d) 1/3 of a man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who founded the Nation of Islam?

2. What does the author claim to be the seeming "sum of our achievement" as humans, in "Down at the Cross"?

3. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom when?

4. The author indicates in "My Dungeon Shook" that "people find it very difficult to act on" what?

5. How old was the author when he describes having gone through a "prolonged religious crisis" in the beginning of "Down at the Cross"?

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