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 the recipient's character in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Kind, holy, and venerable."
(b) "Calm, collected, at peace."
(c) "Reactionary, divisive, impulsive."
(d) "Tough, dark, vulnerable, moody."

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

3. What does the author refer to as "the crime of which I accuse my country" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "They have turned their backs on the people they needed the most."
(b) "They have isolated themselves and taken strides to keep themselves as such."
(c) "They refuse to accept the truth of the black man's superiority."
(d) "They have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives."

4. 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) "Left."
(b) "Achieved so much."
(c) "Made it to the North."
(d) "Survived."

5. How does the author describe himself as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) He was a temperamental baby.
(b) He was an angry baby.
(c) He was a small baby.
(d) He was a big baby.