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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 does the author claim the black man has functioned as in the white man's world in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) A token of inspiration.
(b) A fixed star.
(c) A slave.
(d) A feat to stand above.

2. 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?
(a) "Fallen."
(b) "Aflame."
(c) "Gone."
(d) "Black."

3. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe" what?
(a) "That you are destined for greatness."
(b) "That your life is fluid."
(c) "That you are attainable."
(d) "What white people say about you."

4. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom when?
(a) "One hundred years too soon."
(b) "One hundred years too late."
(c) "Two hundred years too soon."
(d) "Two hundred years too late."

5. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were" what?
(a) "On a road to success."
(b) "A part of the American Dream."
(c) "On the road to failure."
(d) "A worthless human being."

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to extremely cruel and brutal behavior?

2. How does the author describe the stock from which the letter recipient came in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. In "My Dungeon Shook," the author cites E. Franklin Frazier as describing a time when the blacks left the land and entered into what?

4. The author indicates in "My Dungeon Shook" that "people find it very difficult to act on" what?

5. Whom does the author describe watching learn to walk in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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