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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 does the author describe his ancestors picking in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Apples.
(c) Tomatoes.
(d) Cotton.

2. When was Charles Dickens born?
(a) 1805.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1919.

3. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?
(a) The freedom of slaves.
(b) The right for blacks to vote.
(c) The right for women to vote.
(d) The end of segregation.

4. When was E. Franklin Frazier's book The Negro Family in the United States published?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1943.

5. What must one become "concerning destruction and death," according to the author in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Tough and philosophical."
(b) "Bold and incisive."
(c) "Logical and honest."
(d) "Peaceful and analytical."

Short Answer 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?

2. Whom does the author claim "no one has ever accused her of being bitter" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook" that "the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is" what?

4. What word in "My Dungeon Shook" does the author define as meaning "that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it"?

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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