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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What U.S. President issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) James Buchanan.
(c) Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

3. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?
(a) The right for women to vote.
(b) The freedom of slaves.
(c) The end of segregation.
(d) The right for blacks to vote.

4. How does the author describe himself as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) He was a big baby.
(b) He was a temperamental baby.
(c) He was an angry baby.
(d) He was a small baby.

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

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

7. What does the author claim the black man has functioned as in the white man's world in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) A slave.
(b) A token of inspiration.
(c) A fixed star.
(d) A feat to stand above.

8. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that "we can make America" what?
(a) "Better than it has ever been."
(b) "A beacon of yesterday."
(c) "What America must become."
(d) "Great again."

9. How does the author describe the recipient's character in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Kind, holy, and venerable."
(b) "Reactionary, divisive, impulsive."
(c) "Calm, collected, at peace."
(d) "Tough, dark, vulnerable, moody."

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

11. The author writes to the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," "You come from a long line of" what?
(a) "Carpenters."
(b) "Slaves."
(c) "Poets."
(d) "Teachers."

12. How does the author conclude his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "I love you, dear James, and I send my love to the family."
(b) "God bless you, James, and Godspeed."
(c) "I will see you on the morrow."
(d) "I hope that you will forgive me."

13. To whom is the author writing in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) His nephew.
(b) His son.
(c) His father.
(d) His brother.

14. What does the author describe his ancestors picking in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Apples.
(b) Oranges.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Tomatoes.

15. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word in "My Dungeon Shook" does the author define as meaning "that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it"?

2. How many times does the author say he has begun his letter and torn it up in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. What must one become "concerning destruction and death," according to the author in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. 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?

5. 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"?

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