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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. To whom is the author writing in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) His brother.
(b) His nephew.
(c) His father.
(d) His son.

2. 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 feat to stand above.
(d) A slave.

3. 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."

4. When was E. Franklin Frazier elected as the first black president of the American Sociological Association?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1956.

5. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "You were born where you were born, and faced the future that you faced because" of what?
(a) "You were black."
(b) "You were a man."
(c) "You were rich."
(d) "You were poor."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where did Charles Dickens live?

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

4. What is the name of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. What does the author claim to act is to be in "My Dungeon Shook"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Baldwin claim to be "the root of my dispute with my country" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

3. How does the author describe aspirations toward excellence or mediocrity in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

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

6. How does the author rally his nephew in the conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

8. How does the author describe the circumstances of white society and history in "My Dungeon Shook"?

9. How does the author impress the importance of history on his nephew in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

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