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

2. 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) "On the road to failure."
(c) "A part of the American Dream."
(d) "A worthless human being."

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

4. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "Let him laugh and I see" what?
(a) "A cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember."
(b) "A field of flowers and a vase of daisies."
(c) "A grain silo sitting at the edge of the desert for no reason."
(d) "A long and dark tunnel into the fear that hides behind his soul."

5. Where did Homer live?
(a) Egypt.
(b) France.
(c) Greece.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a seemingly self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated may proved to be true?

2. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means to display something?

4. The author claims of white people in "My Dungeon Shook," "They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which" what?

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

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