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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. Where does the author describe listening to the Muslim speakers in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) 125th Street and Seventh Avenue.
(b) Delancey and Hickamore Streets.
(c) Broadway and 45th Street.
(d) 12th Street and Seventh Avenue.

2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means great in importance, extent, or size?
(a) Malevolent.
(b) Monumental.
(c) Corporal.
(d) Pixillated.

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to extremely cruel and brutal behavior?
(a) Integrity.
(b) Apprehension.
(c) Inhumanity.
(d) Diligence.

4. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to the condition of being lower in status or quality than others?
(a) Complexity.
(b) Integrity.
(c) Inferiority.
(d) Desolate.

5. The author says of one of his ancestors in "My Dungeon Shook," "One of them said, the very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and" what?
(a) "I was given faith."
(b) "I was engulfed."
(c) "I suddenly saw the light."
(d) "My chains fell off."

Short Answer Questions

1. The author claims in "Down at the Cross" that two things caused him to begin listening to the Muslim speakers. What was the first thing?

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

3. When dd Elijah Muhammad die?

4. What does the author claim the black man has functioned as in the white man's world in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. When was E. Franklin Frazier's book The Negro Family in the United States published?

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