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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. Whom does the author claim "no one has ever accused her of being bitter" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) His sister.
(b) His mother.
(c) His wife.
(d) His daughter.

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) Patience.
(b) Civility.
(c) Joy.
(d) Tears.

3. About how many years ago does the author describe the letter recipient being born in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) 16 years ago.
(b) 14 years ago.
(c) 10 years ago.
(d) 20 years ago.

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

5. When was E. Franklin Frazier elected as the first black president of the American Sociological Association?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1948.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does the author describe watching learn to walk in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of what era?

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

5. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?

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