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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 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In "My Dungeon Shook," the author cites E. Franklin Frazier as describing a time when the blacks left the land and entered into what?
(a) "The cities of destruction."
(b) "The urban centers of prosperity."
(c) "The cities of despair."
(d) "The cities of decadence."

5. What does the author refer to as "the crime of which I accuse my country" in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "They have isolated themselves and taken strides to keep themselves as such."
(b) "They have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives."
(c) "They refuse to accept the truth of the black man's superiority."
(d) "They have turned their backs on the people they needed the most."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was "My Dungeon Shook" first published?

2. What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?

3. What caused the author's father's defeat in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. What does the author say can be heard in the letter recipient's father's "laughter and in his speech and in his songs" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

5. To whom is the author writing in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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