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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author describe his father's life in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Bombastic.
(b) Impressive.
(c) Terrible.
(d) Ambitious.

2. 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 cities of destruction."
(c) "The urban centers of prosperity."
(d) "The cities of despair."

3. What is the name of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) David Baldwin.
(c) George Baldwin.
(d) John Baldwin.

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

5. 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?
(a) "That there is fear everywhere."
(b) "Family and the meaning of life."
(c) "Time and human pain and effort."
(d) "A sense of love, peace, and justice."

6. What must one become "concerning destruction and death," according to the author in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Logical and honest."
(b) "Bold and incisive."
(c) "Tough and philosophical."
(d) "Peaceful and analytical."

7. How many times does the author say he has begun his letter and torn it up in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) 4 times.
(b) 2 times.
(c) 5 times.
(d) 3 times.

8. 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 soon."
(d) "One hundred years too late."

9. 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?
(a) "The madman."
(b) "The struggles you will face."
(c) "The world of evil."
(d) "The loveless world."

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

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

12. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "Let him laugh and I see" what?
(a) "A cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember."
(b) "A grain silo sitting at the edge of the desert for no reason."
(c) "A long and dark tunnel into the fear that hides behind his soul."
(d) "A field of flowers and a vase of daisies."

13. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook," "Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of" what?
(a) "The meaning of life."
(b) "Health and love."
(c) "One's own reality."
(d) "Grief."

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

15. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a firm upright support for a superstructure?
(a) Ballast.
(b) Mast.
(c) Chattel.
(d) Pillar.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How does the author describe the recipient's character in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

4. When was E. Franklin Frazier elected as the first black president of the American Sociological Association?

5. 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"?

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