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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. How does the author describe the letter recipient as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) He was a small baby.
(b) He was an emaciated baby.
(c) He was a mean baby.
(d) He was a big baby.

2. Where was "My Dungeon Shook" first published?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) Time magazine.
(c) Reader's Digest.
(d) The Progressive.

3. How does the author describe his father's life in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Ambitious.
(b) Terrible.
(c) Bombastic.
(d) Impressive.

4. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1859.

5. When did E. Franklin Frazier help draft the UNESCO statement entitled The Race Question?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1946.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Charles Dickens die?

2. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "Let him laugh and I see" what?

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

4. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?

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

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