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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) "Grief."
(d) "One's own reality."

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

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

5. Of white people, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "You must accept them and accept them with" what?
(a) Love.
(b) Resentment.
(c) Faith.
(d) Clarity.

6. The author states in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook," "We cannot be free until" what?
(a) "They are dead."
(b) "We are one."
(c) "We are educated."
(d) "They are free."

7. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1894.

8. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "This innocent country set you down" where?
(a) "In a factory."
(b) "In a circle."
(c) "In a ghetto."
(d) "In a field of grass."

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

10. 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 fixed star.
(c) A slave.
(d) A token of inspiration.

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

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

13. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have" what?
(a) "Left."
(b) "Achieved so much."
(c) "Made it to the North."
(d) "Survived."

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

15. How does the author conclude his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "I hope that you will forgive me."
(b) "I love you, dear James, and I send my love to the family."
(c) "I will see you on the morrow."
(d) "God bless you, James, and Godspeed."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "unassailable" mean in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to desire and determination to achieve success?

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

4. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "Let him laugh and I see" what?

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

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