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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. How does the author describe the letter recipient as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) He was an emaciated baby.
(b) He was a big baby.
(c) He was a mean baby.
(d) He was a small baby.

2. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe" what?
(a) "That you are attainable."
(b) "That you are destined for greatness."
(c) "That your life is fluid."
(d) "What white people say about you."

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

4. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?
(a) The right for blacks to vote.
(b) The end of segregation.
(c) The freedom of slaves.
(d) The right for women to vote.

5. Whom does the author claim "no one has ever accused her of being bitter" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His wife.
(c) His sister.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer 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?

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

3. 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"?

4. The author writes in "My Dungeon Shook," "You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were" what?

5. How does the author conclude his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe his relationship with his brother in "My Dungeon Shook"?

2. How does the author describe the circumstances of white society and history in "My Dungeon Shook"?

3. Who is Charles Dickens and why does the author cite him in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

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

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

7. How is the title of the essay employed in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

9. What does the author claim to be the only way you can be destroyed in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

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