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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 indicates in "My Dungeon Shook" that "people find it very difficult to act on" what?
(a) "What they've forgotten."
(b) "Faith."
(c) "What they know."
(d) "Intuition."

2. What does the word "unassailable" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Unable to be attacked or defeated.
(b) Unable to be dissuaded.
(c) Capable of logic and enterprise.
(d) Unable to be devoured.

3. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "This innocent country set you down" where?
(a) "In a circle."
(b) "In a factory."
(c) "In a ghetto."
(d) "In a field of grass."

4. The author tells the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," "Take no one's word for anything, including mine--but trust" what?
(a) "Your experience."
(b) "Your instincts."
(c) "Your soul."
(d) "Your intelligence."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Charles Dickens die?

2. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," " There is no reason for you to try to become like" what?

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 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?

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

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