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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: The Plantation (Samson – Miss Lilly).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the first movement of the Ku Klux Klan formed in America?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1701.
(d) 1892.

2. Whose inspiration has led Ned to the decision to open a school to meet the educational needs of local blacks in “Professor Douglass”?
(a) The influences of Jack Frost and Robert Wilson.
(b) The influences of Albert Einstein and Henry David Thoreau.
(c) The influences of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Walt Whitman.
(d) The influences of Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass.

3. Where does Ned's family go after his death in “The People”?
(a) To Ohio.
(b) To Missouri.
(c) To Kansas.
(d) To Arkansas.

4. Who does the white man turn into in Jane's vision from “The Travels of Miss Jane Pittman”?
(a) Mary Agnes LeFabre.
(b) Madame Gautier.
(c) Ned, Joe, and Cluveau.
(d) The Devil.

5. What is Joe Pittman's position when Jane marries him?
(a) He is a field worker.
(b) He is a cook.
(c) He is a horse breaker.
(d) He is a butler in the Big House.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Molly leave her position to find work elsewhere in “Molly”?

2. What options are the slaves on Jane's plantation given after they've been freed in "Freedom"?

3. For how much money per month is Jane hired on at the plantation in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?

4. What happens to Ned's murderer in “The People”?

5. Which of Samson's sons is white in “Two Brothers of the South”?

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