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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 did Rudyard Kipling live?
(a) Canada.
(b) Ireland.
(c) France.
(d) England.

2. 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?
(a) The Police.
(b) The Presidential elections.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) World War II.

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

4. Where does the author claim he was when a bartender refused to serve him and some friends in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) The Sam Houston Airport.
(b) The La Guardia airport.
(c) The J.F.K. airport.
(d) The Chicago O'Hare airport.

5. What does the author claim to act is to be in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Committed.
(b) Demanding.
(c) Complacent.
(d) Impertinent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say can be heard in the letter recipient's father's "laughter and in his speech and in his songs" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means eager to fight or defiant?

3. What does the word "impertinent" mean in the context of "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. The author states in "Down at the Cross," "I certainly could not discover any principled reason for not becoming a criminal, and it is not my poor, God-fearing parents who are to be indicted for the lack but" what?

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

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