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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 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means eager to fight or defiant?
(a) Cautionary.
(b) Truculent.
(c) Conclusive.
(d) Virulent.

3. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have" what?
(a) "Achieved so much."
(b) "Left."
(c) "Survived."
(d) "Made it to the North."

4. When was E. Franklin Frazier's book The Negro Family in the United States published?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1932.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Charles Dickens live?

2. When did E. Franklin Frazier help draft the UNESCO statement entitled The Race Question?

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

4. What must one become "concerning destruction and death," according to the author in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. How does the author describe the letter recipient as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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