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

2. How does the author describe the letter recipient as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) He was a small baby.
(b) He was a big baby.
(c) He was an emaciated baby.
(d) He was a mean baby.

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

4. Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of what era?
(a) The Victorian era.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) The Edwardian era.
(d) The modernist era.

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"?
(a) Tears.
(b) Joy.
(c) Patience.
(d) Civility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Charles Dickens live?

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

3. When did Charles Dickens die?

4. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?

5. 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?

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