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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation" – Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of what era?
(a) The Edwardian era.
(b) The modernist era.
(c) The Renaissance.
(d) The Victorian era.

3. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," " There is no reason for you to try to become like" what?
(a) "White people."
(b) "Your ancestors."
(c) "Your father."
(d) "Me."

4. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "Let him laugh and I see" what?
(a) "A grain silo sitting at the edge of the desert for no reason."
(b) "A field of flowers and a vase of daisies."
(c) "A cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember."
(d) "A long and dark tunnel into the fear that hides behind his soul."

5. 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"?
(a) Tears.
(b) Patience.
(c) Joy.
(d) Civility.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook," "Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of" what?

2. What does the word "perish" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. How does the author describe his father's life in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. When was E. Franklin Frazier elected as the first black president of the American Sociological Association?

5. To whom is the author writing in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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