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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 urges the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook" to "imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars" what?
(a) "Fallen."
(b) "Black."
(c) "Aflame."
(d) "Gone."

2. What does the author refer to as "the crime of which I accuse my country" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "They have turned their backs on the people they needed the most."
(b) "They refuse to accept the truth of the black man's superiority."
(c) "They have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives."
(d) "They have isolated themselves and taken strides to keep themselves as such."

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

4. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe" what?
(a) "That you are destined for greatness."
(b) "That you are attainable."
(c) "What white people say about you."
(d) "That your life is fluid."

5. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a seemingly self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated may proved to be true?
(a) Irony.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Atonement.
(d) Malaprop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?

2. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," " There is no reason for you to try to become like" what?

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to the condition of being lower in status or quality than others?

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

5. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to extremely cruel and brutal behavior?

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