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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 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must one become "concerning destruction and death," according to the author in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "Tough and philosophical."
(b) "Logical and honest."
(c) "Bold and incisive."
(d) "Peaceful and analytical."

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

3. The author claims in "My Dungeon Shook," "Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of" what?
(a) "Health and love."
(b) "The meaning of life."
(c) "One's own reality."
(d) "Grief."

4. How does the author conclude his letter in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) "I hope that you will forgive me."
(b) "I will see you on the morrow."
(c) "I love you, dear James, and I send my love to the family."
(d) "God bless you, James, and Godspeed."

5. How does the author describe the letter recipient as a baby in "My Dungeon Shook"?
(a) He was a mean baby.
(b) He was a big baby.
(c) He was an emaciated baby.
(d) He was a small baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did E. Franklin Frazier help draft the UNESCO statement entitled The Race Question?

2. 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"?

3. What does the author describe his ancestors picking in "My Dungeon Shook"?

4. Where did Charles Dickens live?

5. 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?

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