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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author describes the recipient's face as being the same face of whom in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Your mother and grandmother."
(b) "Your mother and father."
(c) "Your father and my brother."
(d) "Your great-grandfather."

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

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

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

5. 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 grain silo sitting at the edge of the desert for no reason."
(c) "A cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember."
(d) "A field of flowers and a vase of daisies."

6. When was Charles Dickens born?
(a) 1805.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1812.

7. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," " There is no reason for you to try to become like" what?
(a) "Me."
(b) "White people."
(c) "Your father."
(d) "Your ancestors."

8. When was E. Franklin Frazier's book The Negro Family in the United States published?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1939.

9. 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 late."
(b) "One hundred years too late."
(c) "Two hundred years too soon."
(d) "One hundred years too soon."

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

11. When was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?
(a) January 1, 1863.
(b) January 1, 1862.
(c) January 1, 1864.
(d) January 1, 1865.

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

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

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

15. 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) "One's own reality."
(b) "The meaning of life."
(c) "Grief."
(d) "Health and love."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where did Charles Dickens live?

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

4. The author writes to the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook," "You come from a long line of" what?

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

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