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 describes the birth of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," saying "here you were: to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against" what?
(a) "The madman."
(b) "The struggles you will face."
(c) "The world of evil."
(d) "The loveless world."

2. How many times does the author say he has begun his letter and torn it up in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) 4 times.
(b) 5 times.
(c) 3 times.
(d) 2 times.

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

4. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," that "if you've loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange perspective on" what?
(a) "A sense of love, peace, and justice."
(b) "That there is fear everywhere."
(c) "Family and the meaning of life."
(d) "Time and human pain and effort."

5. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means great in importance, extent, or size?
(a) Malevolent.
(b) Monumental.
(c) Pixillated.
(d) Corporal.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were" what?

2. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "Let him laugh and I see" what?

3. The author describes the recipient's face as being the same face of whom in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

5. How does the author describe the stock from which the letter recipient came in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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