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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. 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?
(a) "The loveless world."
(b) "The world of evil."
(c) "The struggles you will face."
(d) "The madman."

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

3. How does the author describe himself as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) He was a small baby.
(b) He was a big baby.
(c) He was a temperamental baby.
(d) He was an angry baby.

4. What does the author refer to as "the crime of which I accuse my country" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "They have isolated themselves and taken strides to keep themselves as such."
(b) "They have turned their backs on the people they needed the most."
(c) "They have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives."
(d) "They refuse to accept the truth of the black man's superiority."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After whom was the letter recipient named in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means eager to fight or defiant?

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

5. 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?

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