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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "My Dungeon Shook," the author cites E. Franklin Frazier as describing a time when the blacks left the land and entered into what?
(a) "The cities of decadence."
(b) "The urban centers of prosperity."
(c) "The cities of destruction."
(d) "The cities of despair."

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

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

4. 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 mean baby.
(c) He was a big baby.
(d) He was an emaciated baby.

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

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

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

8. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means eager to fight or defiant?
(a) Conclusive.
(b) Cautionary.
(c) Virulent.
(d) Truculent.

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

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

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

12. 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"?
(a) Civility.
(b) Joy.
(c) Patience.
(d) Tears.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the author's father's defeat in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. 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?

3. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that "we can make America" what?

4. 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?

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

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