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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. Of white people, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "You must accept them and accept them with" what?
(a) Clarity.
(b) Faith.
(c) Love.
(d) Resentment.

2. What does the word "perish" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) To die.
(b) To enliven.
(c) To distinguish.
(d) To expel.

3. The author states in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook," "We cannot be free until" what?
(a) "We are educated."
(b) "They are free."
(c) "We are one."
(d) "They are dead."

4. 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?
(a) "A worthless human being."
(b) "On the road to failure."
(c) "On a road to success."
(d) "A part of the American Dream."

5. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," " There is no reason for you to try to become like" what?
(a) "Your ancestors."
(b) "Your father."
(c) "White people."
(d) "Me."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author conclude his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

3. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," I hear in his present laughter" what?

4. The author says of one of his ancestors in "My Dungeon Shook," "One of them said, the very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and" what?

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

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