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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 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?
(a) "That there is fear everywhere."
(b) "A sense of love, peace, and justice."
(c) "Time and human pain and effort."
(d) "Family and the meaning of life."

2. After whom was the letter recipient named in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) After his godfather.
(b) After his grandfather.
(c) After his father.
(d) After the author.

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

4. The author describes the recipient's face as being the same face of whom in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Your mother and grandmother."
(b) "Your great-grandfather."
(c) "Your father and my brother."
(d) "Your mother and father."

5. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," I hear in his present laughter" what?
(a) "The singing of birds of yesterday."
(b) "The laughter of tomorrow."
(c) "His laughter as a child."
(d) "The gravelly voice of our father."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was E. Franklin Frazier's book The Negro Family in the United States published?

3. What caused the author's father's defeat in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?

5. What does the author say can be heard in the letter recipient's father's "laughter and in his speech and in his songs" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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