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 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author describes the recipient's face as being the same face of whom in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Your mother and grandmother."
(b) "Your mother and father."
(c) "Your father and my brother."
(d) "Your great-grandfather."

2. The author describes the birth of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," saying "here you were: to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against" what?
(a) "The struggles you will face."
(b) "The world of evil."
(c) "The loveless world."
(d) "The madman."

3. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," that "if you've loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange perspective on" what?
(a) "That there is fear everywhere."
(b) "Family and the meaning of life."
(c) "A sense of love, peace, and justice."
(d) "Time and human pain and effort."

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

5. 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?
(a) "Left."
(b) "Achieved so much."
(c) "Made it to the North."
(d) "Survived."