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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 claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom when?
(a) "One hundred years too soon."
(b) "Two hundred years too soon."
(c) "One hundred years too late."
(d) "Two hundred years too late."

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

3. When did E. Franklin Frazier help draft the UNESCO statement entitled The Race Question?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1947.

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

5. 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) "Aflame."
(b) "Black."
(c) "Fallen."
(d) "Gone."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is the author writing in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. 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?

4. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe" what?

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

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