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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: The War Years (Soldiers – Heading South).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What imposing woman leads the slaves on their journey in “Heading North”?
(a) Amma Dean.
(b) Black Harriet.
(c) Big Laura.
(d) Madame Gautier.

2. How does Jane describe her mother's death in “Heading South”?
(a) She was killed in a threshing machine accident.
(b) She was shot by a slave master.
(c) She was beaten to death by a slave master.
(d) She hung herself in the slave quarters.

3. What are the Confederate soldiers called in "Soldiers"?
(a) Secesh.
(b) Hardies.
(c) Bootleggers.
(d) Cajuns.

4. When does the narrator describe going to the plantation where Miss Jane Pittman lives in the Introduction?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1968.

5. How old is Miss Jane Pittman's caretaker described as in the Introduction?
(a) She is in her early 60s.
(b) She is in her late 30s.
(c) She is in her early 50s.
(d) She is in her mid-40s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after the narrator's last interview with Miss Jane does he say she died in the Introduction?

2. Why do the blacks that Jane and Ned encounter mock her in “Heading South”?

3. Whom does the narrator thank in concluding the Introduction?

4. From what narrative tense is the Introduction related?

5. Hold is Miss Jane Pittman described in the Introduction?

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