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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. In "My Dungeon Shook," the author cites E. Franklin Frazier as describing a time when the blacks left the land and entered into what?
(a) "The urban centers of prosperity."
(b) "The cities of decadence."
(c) "The cities of despair."
(d) "The cities of destruction."

2. 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 cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember."
(c) "A long and dark tunnel into the fear that hides behind his soul."
(d) "A field of flowers and a vase of daisies."

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

4. Whom does the author claim "no one has ever accused her of being bitter" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His sister.
(c) His mother.
(d) His wife.

5. Where was "My Dungeon Shook" first published?
(a) Reader's Digest.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) The Progressive.
(d) Time magazine.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the author writing in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. When was E. Franklin Frazier elected as the first black president of the American Sociological Association?

3. What U.S. President issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

4. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?

5. What does the author refer to as "the crime of which I accuse my country" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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