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 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 refuse to accept the truth of the black man's superiority."
(c) "They have turned their backs on the people they needed the most."
(d) "They have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives."

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

3. 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?
(a) "That there is fear everywhere."
(b) "Time and human pain and effort."
(c) "A sense of love, peace, and justice."
(d) "Family and the meaning of life."

4. Of the letter recipient's father, the author says in "My Dungeon Shook," "Let him laugh and I see" what?
(a) "A long and dark tunnel into the fear that hides behind his soul."
(b) "A grain silo sitting at the edge of the desert for no reason."
(c) "A cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember."
(d) "A field of flowers and a vase of daisies."

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