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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. 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 late."
(b) "Two hundred years too soon."
(c) "One hundred years too soon."
(d) "Two hundred years too late."

2. What does the author claim to act is to be in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Impertinent.
(b) Committed.
(c) Complacent.
(d) Demanding.

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

4. How does the author describe the recipient's character in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Reactionary, divisive, impulsive."
(b) "Calm, collected, at peace."
(c) "Kind, holy, and venerable."
(d) "Tough, dark, vulnerable, moody."

5. The author indicates in "My Dungeon Shook" that "people find it very difficult to act on" what?
(a) "What they've forgotten."
(b) "What they know."
(c) "Faith."
(d) "Intuition."

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," that "if you've loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange perspective on" what?

2. The author describes the recipient's face as being the same face of whom in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. The author states in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook," "We cannot be free until" what?

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

5. The author describes the birth of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," saying "here you were: to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against" what?

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