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

2. What U.S. President issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) James Buchanan.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means to display something?
(a) Exhibit.
(b) Interrogate.
(c) Inhibit.
(d) Delineate.

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

5. 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) "The singing of birds of yesterday."
(c) "His laughter as a child."
(d) "The laughter of tomorrow."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. When was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?

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

5. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?

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