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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was "My Dungeon Shook" first published?
(a) Reader's Digest.
(b) Time magazine.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) The Progressive.

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

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

5. How does the author describe the recipient's character in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Kind, holy, and venerable."
(b) "Calm, collected, at peace."
(c) "Tough, dark, vulnerable, moody."
(d) "Reactionary, divisive, impulsive."

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. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "You were born where you were born, and faced the future that you faced because" of what?

3. 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?

4. How does the author describe himself as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. About how many years ago does the author describe the letter recipient being born in "My Dungeon Shook"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author say the world has done to his brother in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. How does James Baldwin describe his father's defeat in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. What does the word "Negro" mean, and how is it applied in The Fire Next Time?

4. What does Baldwin claim to be "the root of my dispute with my country" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. What does the author remark about love and survival in "My Dungeon Shook"?

6. How does the author describe the temperament and attitudes of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook"?

7. What "is the danger in the minds of most white Americans," according to the author in "My Dungeon Shook"?

8. Who is E. Franklin Frazier and why does the author cite him in "My Dungeon Shook"?

9. What does the author write about the words "acceptance" and "integration" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

10. How has the black man functioned in the white man's world, according to Baldwin in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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