View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation" – Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author claim the black man has functioned as in the white man's world in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) A fixed star.
(b) A token of inspiration.
(c) A feat to stand above.
(d) A slave.

2. 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) "Achieved so much."
(b) "Survived."
(c) "Left."
(d) "Made it to the North."

3. 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) "What America must become."
(d) "Great again."

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

5. The author claims of white people in "My Dungeon Shook," "They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which" what?
(a) "They do not understand."
(b) "They created themselves."
(c) "They cannot escape."
(d) "They never wanted."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. The author claims in his conclusion of "My Dungeon Shook" that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom when?

4. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means eager to fight or defiant?

5. When was E. Franklin Frazier elected as the first black president of the American Sociological Association?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 312 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample