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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," "We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have" what?
(a) "Made it to the North."
(b) "Achieved so much."
(c) "Left."
(d) "Survived."

2. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?
(a) The right for women to vote.
(b) The freedom of slaves.
(c) The right for blacks to vote.
(d) The end of segregation.

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

4. What is the name of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) John Baldwin.
(b) George Baldwin.
(c) David Baldwin.
(d) James Baldwin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?

2. Where was "My Dungeon Shook" first published?

3. 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?

4. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?

5. How does the author describe himself as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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