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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" means to display something?
(a) Inhibit.
(b) Exhibit.
(c) Interrogate.
(d) Delineate.

2. The author states in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook," "We cannot be free until" what?
(a) "They are dead."
(b) "We are one."
(c) "We are educated."
(d) "They are free."

3. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook" that "the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is" what?
(a) "The loss of faith."
(b) "The loss of money."
(c) "The loss of power."
(d) "The loss of identity."

4. What U.S. President issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) James Buchanan.
(c) Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

5. The author writes to the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," "You come from a long line of" what?
(a) "Poets."
(b) "Teachers."
(c) "Slaves."
(d) "Carpenters."

Short Answer Questions

1. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that "we can make America" what?

2. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom when?

3. How many times does the author say he has begun his letter and torn it up in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?

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?

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