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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. Who is the Union soldier that tells Jane the slaves are about to be freed in "Soldiers"?
(a) Colonel Black.
(b) Corporal Brown.
(c) Colonel Dye.
(d) Colonel Jackson.

2. The white woman tells Jane and Ned in “Heading South” that they won't find a way to cross the river without what?
(a) A boat.
(b) A white chaperone.
(c) Money for the ferry.
(d) A raft.

3. What options are the slaves on Jane's plantation given after they've been freed in "Freedom"?
(a) They can lease land to farm as their own or they can work for the plantation.
(b) They can stay and learn to read or they can leave to fend for themselves.
(c) They can stay as hired laborers or leave to fend for themselves.
(d) They can leave or they can work their way up to master.

4. Why do the blacks that Jane and Ned encounter mock her in “Heading South”?
(a) They mock her for leaving Tee Bob.
(b) They mock her for attempting to learn to read.
(c) They mock her idea of making it to Ohio.
(d) They mock her for not wanting to marry.

5. From what narrative tense is the Introduction related?
(a) Future passive tense.
(b) Past tense.
(c) Present tense.
(d) Future tense.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the white woman that is accompanied by the black flee from in “Heading South”?

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

3. What impasse have Jane and Ned reached at the end of “Massacre”?

4. Who is Ned's mother?

5. What are the poor whites called that make it their job to track down slaves in “Massacre”?

(see the answer key)

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