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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. How does the author describe his father's life in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Bombastic.
(b) Ambitious.
(c) Terrible.
(d) Impressive.

2. When did Charles Dickens die?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1870.

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

4. Whom does the author describe watching learn to walk in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) His nephew.
(b) His son.
(c) His grandson.
(d) His brother.

5. When was Charles Dickens born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1805.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Charles Dickens live?

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

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?

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

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

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