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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. For what work is Homer most known?
(a) The Odyssey.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) The Cave.
(d) The Poet's Destiny.

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

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

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

5. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "Let him laugh and I see" what?
(a) "A field of flowers and a vase of daisies."
(b) "A long and dark tunnel into the fear that hides behind his soul."
(c) "A grain silo sitting at the edge of the desert for no reason."
(d) "A cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember."

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times does the author say he has begun his letter and torn it up in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. What does the author describe his ancestors building in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. Where did Homer live?

4. When was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?

5. Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of what era?

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