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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. When was E. Franklin Frazier's book The Negro Family in the United States published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1939.

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) Irony.
(b) Malaprop.
(c) Atonement.
(d) Paradox.

3. What author does the narrator describe beginning to read when he began losing his faith in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) Dostoevski.
(b) Nietzche.
(c) Kant.
(d) Homer.

4. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to desire and determination to achieve success?
(a) Cultivation.
(b) Exultation.
(c) Ambition.
(d) Deterioration.

5. How old was the author when he describes having gone through a "prolonged religious crisis" in the beginning of "Down at the Cross"?
(a) 21.
(b) 19.
(c) 14.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color clothing does the author describe the women wearing at Elijah Muhammad's home in "Down at the Cross"?

2. The author describes the recipient's face as being the same face of whom in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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