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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. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook," "Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of" what?
(a) "Grief."
(b) "One's own reality."
(c) "The meaning of life."
(d) "Health and love."

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook," "We cannot be free until" what?

2. How does the author conclude his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. What does the author claim to act is to be in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe" what?

5. The author says of one of his ancestors in "My Dungeon Shook," "One of them said, the very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and" what?

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