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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have" what?
(a) "Made it to the North."
(b) "Survived."
(c) "Left."
(d) "Achieved so much."

3. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means great in importance, extent, or size?
(a) Pixillated.
(b) Monumental.
(c) Corporal.
(d) Malevolent.

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

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

6. What does the word "impertinent" mean in the context of "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Uncomfortable or wary.
(b) Inexcusable.
(c) Disrespectful or rude.
(d) Plausible.

7. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means to display something?
(a) Interrogate.
(b) Inhibit.
(c) Delineate.
(d) Exhibit.

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

9. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to desire and determination to achieve success?
(a) Exultation.
(b) Ambition.
(c) Cultivation.
(d) Deterioration.

10. Whom does the author describe watching learn to walk in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) His brother.
(b) His grandson.
(c) His nephew.
(d) His son.

11. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook" that "the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is" what?
(a) "The loss of identity."
(b) "The loss of money."
(c) "The loss of power."
(d) "The loss of faith."

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

13. 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) Compulsion.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Atonement.
(d) Integration.

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

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 rich."
(b) "You were black."
(c) "You were a man."
(d) "You were poor."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Charles Dickens live?

2. 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?

3. What is the name of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," I hear in his present laughter" what?

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

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