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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) "I suddenly saw the light."
(b) "I was given faith."
(c) "My chains fell off."
(d) "I was engulfed."

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

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

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

5. What does the word "unassailable" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) Unable to be attacked or defeated.
(b) Capable of logic and enterprise.
(c) Unable to be dissuaded.
(d) Unable to be devoured.

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

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

8. What does the author refer to as "the crime of which I accuse my country" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "They have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives."
(b) "They refuse to accept the truth of the black man's superiority."
(c) "They have turned their backs on the people they needed the most."
(d) "They have isolated themselves and taken strides to keep themselves as such."

9. When did E. Franklin Frazier help draft the UNESCO statement entitled The Race Question?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1946.

10. When did Charles Dickens die?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1899.

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

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

13. 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) Tears.
(b) Joy.
(c) Civility.
(d) Patience.

14. 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."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What U.S. President issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

2. Where did Charles Dickens live?

3. How does the author describe the letter recipient as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. Where was "My Dungeon Shook" first published?

5. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook" that "the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is" what?

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