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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jane become angry and beat a man with a stick in “Heading North”?
(a) Because he decided to adopt her last name of Brown.
(b) Because he attempted to stteal her bag of food.
(c) Because he attempted to take Ned's flint from him.
(d) Because he attempted to hit Hardy.

2. What word from the Introduction refers to something that recurs again and again?
(a) Repetitious.
(b) Impudence.
(c) Deliverance.
(d) Arrogance.

3. Why are Jane and Ned denied passage on the ferry in “Shelter for a Night”?
(a) They don't have enough money.
(b) They do not have emancipation papers.
(c) They are black.
(d) They do not have shoes on.

4. Where did the white woman that is accompanied by the black flee from in “Heading South”?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Texas.

5. How long after Ned's absence does Jane receive word from him in “Two Letters from Kansas”?
(a) After he's been gone a month.
(b) After he's been gone a year.
(c) After he's been gone two years.
(d) After he's been gone six months.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Job's wife respond when he brings Ned and Jane home in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?

2. What is playtime dependent upon for Jane in “All Kinds of People”?

3. Who is the overseer on Samson's plantation in “Two Brothers of the South”?

4. What is the name of the schoolteacher who comes to Samson Plantation in “The LeFarbre Family”?

5. What was Huey P. Long's nickname?

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