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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 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.

2. What word from "My Dungeon Shook" means eager to fight or defiant?
(a) Truculent.
(b) Virulent.
(c) Conclusive.
(d) Cautionary.

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

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

5. How does the author describe himself as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) He was a big baby.
(b) He was a temperamental baby.
(c) He was a small baby.
(d) He was an angry baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Charles Dickens die?

2. When was E. Franklin Frazier born?

3. Whom does the author claim "no one has ever accused her of being bitter" in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. The author says in "My Dungeon Shook," that "if you've loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange perspective on" what?

5. What is the name of the letter recipient in "My Dungeon Shook"?

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