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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 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a firm upright support for a superstructure?
(a) Chattel.
(b) Mast.
(c) Ballast.
(d) Pillar.

2. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that "we can make America" what?
(a) "Better than it has ever been."
(b) "Great again."
(c) "A beacon of yesterday."
(d) "What America must become."

3. The author indicates in "My Dungeon Shook" that "people find it very difficult to act on" what?
(a) "Faith."
(b) "Intuition."
(c) "What they've forgotten."
(d) "What they know."

4. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means eager to fight or defiant?
(a) Truculent.
(b) Conclusive.
(c) Cautionary.
(d) Virulent.

5. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means great in importance, extent, or size?
(a) Monumental.
(b) Malevolent.
(c) Pixillated.
(d) Corporal.

Short Answer Questions

1. After whom was the letter recipient named in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. 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?

3. What is the name of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

5. Where did Charles Dickens live?

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