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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 Charles Dickens born?
(a) 1805.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1865.

2. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "This innocent country set you down" where?
(a) "In a field of grass."
(b) "In a ghetto."
(c) "In a circle."
(d) "In a factory."

3. 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?
(a) His mother's rape.
(b) His mother's lynching.
(c) His father's lynching.
(d) His uncle's execution.

4. What word in "My Dungeon Shook" does the author define as meaning "that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it"?
(a) Atonement.
(b) Compulsion.
(c) Integration.
(d) Revenge.

5. What does the author claim to be the seeming "sum of our achievement" as humans, in "Down at the Cross"?
(a) The power to enslave one another.
(b) The power to kill nature.
(c) The power to oppress one another.
(d) The power to exterminate ourselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times does the author say he has begun his letter and torn it up in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. The author puts forth the Nation of Islam's belief that the white man's rule will be ended in how much time in "Down at the Cross"?

3. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook" that "the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is" what?

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

5. The author urges the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook" to "imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars" what?

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