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

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

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

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

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

6. 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 despair."
(b) "The cities of decadence."
(c) "The cities of destruction."
(d) "The urban centers of prosperity."

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

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

9. 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.

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

11. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to the condition of being lower in status or quality than others?
(a) Inferiority.
(b) Desolate.
(c) Complexity.
(d) Integrity.

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

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

14. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a seemingly self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated may proved to be true?
(a) Malaprop.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Irony.
(d) Atonement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to extremely cruel and brutal behavior?

2. Where did Homer live?

3. Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of what era?

4. For what work is Homer most known?

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

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