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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," I hear in his present laughter" what?
(a) "The gravelly voice of our father."
(b) "The laughter of tomorrow."
(c) "The singing of birds of yesterday."
(d) "His laughter as a child."

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

3. How does the author sign off in his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Your uncle, James."
(b) "Your son, James."
(c) "Your brother, James."
(d) "Your father."

4. 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"?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Compulsion.
(c) Atonement.
(d) Integration.

5. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to extremely cruel and brutal behavior?
(a) Inhumanity.
(b) Apprehension.
(c) Diligence.
(d) Integrity.

6. After whom was the letter recipient named in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) After his godfather.
(b) After his father.
(c) After his grandfather.
(d) After the author.

7. Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of what era?
(a) The Edwardian era.
(b) The Victorian era.
(c) The Renaissance.
(d) The modernist era.

8. Where was "My Dungeon Shook" first published?
(a) Reader's Digest.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) The Progressive.
(d) Time magazine.

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

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

11. When was E. Franklin Frazier elected as the first black president of the American Sociological Association?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1948.

12. What does the author describe his ancestors building in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Cars.
(b) Factories.
(c) Railroads.
(d) Skyscrapers.

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

14. Whom does the author claim "no one has ever accused her of being bitter" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His wife.

15. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "You were born where you were born, and faced the future that you faced because" of what?
(a) "You were poor."
(b) "You were a man."
(c) "You were black."
(d) "You were rich."

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," that "if you've loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange perspective on" what?

2. What does the author claim to act is to be in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. 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?

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. About how many years ago does the author describe the letter recipient being born in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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