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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) "Family and the meaning of life."
(d) "Time and human pain and effort."

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author describes the recipient's face as being the same face of whom in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. What must one become "concerning destruction and death," according to the author in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

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

5. When did E. Franklin Frazier help draft the UNESCO statement entitled The Race Question?

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