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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 writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "You were born where you were born, and faced the future that you faced because" of what?
(a) "You were poor."
(b) "You were a man."
(c) "You were black."
(d) "You were rich."

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

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to extremely cruel and brutal behavior?
(a) Diligence.
(b) Apprehension.
(c) Inhumanity.
(d) Integrity.

4. 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."

5. How does the author sign off in his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Your father."
(b) "Your brother, James."
(c) "Your uncle, James."
(d) "Your son, James."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author say can be heard in the letter recipient's father's "laughter and in his speech and in his songs" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

4. When was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?

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

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