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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. How does the author describe the letter recipient as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) He was a mean baby.
(b) He was a big baby.
(c) He was a small baby.
(d) He was an emaciated baby.

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

3. How does the author describe his father's life in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Impressive.
(b) Ambitious.
(c) Terrible.
(d) Bombastic.

4. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook," "Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of" what?
(a) "One's own reality."
(b) "Grief."
(c) "Health and love."
(d) "The meaning of life."

5. What does the author claim to act is to be in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Complacent.
(b) Committed.
(c) Impertinent.
(d) Demanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the author's father's defeat in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom when?

3. In "My Dungeon Shook," the author cites E. Franklin Frazier as describing a time when the blacks left the land and entered into 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. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe" what?

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