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. How does the author conclude his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "God bless you, James, and Godspeed."
(b) "I love you, dear James, and I send my love to the family."
(c) "I hope that you will forgive me."
(d) "I will see you on the morrow."

2. Whom does the author describe watching learn to walk in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) His nephew.
(b) His brother.
(c) His son.
(d) His grandson.

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

4. When did Charles Dickens die?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1919.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom when?

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

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

5. What does the word "perish" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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