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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. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" refers to a firm upright support for a superstructure?
(a) Pillar.
(b) Mast.
(c) Chattel.
(d) Ballast.

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

3. Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of what era?
(a) The Victorian era.
(b) The Edwardian era.
(c) The modernist era.
(d) The Renaissance.

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

5. 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 instincts."
(c) "Your soul."
(d) "Your experience."

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," " There is no reason for you to try to become like" what?

2. Of white people, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "You must accept them and accept them with" 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 many times does the author say he has begun his letter and torn it up in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. In "My Dungeon Shook," the author cites E. Franklin Frazier as describing a time when the blacks left the land and entered into what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the author describe aspirations toward excellence or mediocrity in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

6. Why does James Baldwin claim to have re-started his letter numerous times in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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

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

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

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

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