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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

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

2. About how many years ago does the author describe the letter recipient being born in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) 16 years ago.
(b) 14 years ago.
(c) 10 years ago.
(d) 20 years ago.

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a seemingly self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated may proved to be true?
(a) Atonement.
(b) Malaprop.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Irony.

4. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means to display something?
(a) Inhibit.
(b) Exhibit.
(c) Interrogate.
(d) Delineate.

5. What caused the author's father's defeat in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "He couldn't stop his temper from exploding."
(b) "He was unaware of his destiny and fell behind."
(c) "He really believed what what people said about him."
(d) "He didn't care for his family or his friends."

Short Answer Questions

1. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?

2. When was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?

3. The author writes to the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," "You come from a long line of" what?

4. Whom does the author claim "no one has ever accused her of being bitter" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. The author says of one of his ancestors in "My Dungeon Shook," "One of them said, the very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and" what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does James Baldwin describe his father's defeat in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. What does the word "Negro" mean, and how is it applied in The Fire Next Time?

3. What does the author remark about love and survival in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. How does the author describe his relationship with his brother in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. How does the author describe his mother in "My Dungeon Shook"?

6. How has the black man functioned in the white man's world, according to Baldwin in "My Dungeon Shook"?

7. How is the title of the essay employed in "My Dungeon Shook"?

8. What "is the danger in the minds of most white Americans," according to the author in "My Dungeon Shook"?

9. How is the essay "My Dungeon Shook" formatted and structured?

10. What does the author claim to be the only way you can be destroyed in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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