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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: The War Years (Shelter for a Night – Rednecks and Scalawags).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator "sign off" in the conclusion of the Introduction?
(a) "The historian."
(b) "The editor."
(c) "The author."
(d) "Your friend."

2. What are the poor whites called that make it their job to track down slaves in “Massacre”?
(a) Cajuns.
(b) Blackhawks.
(c) Turkeys.
(d) Patrollers.

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

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

5. What does Jane inform Ned as they are going to sleep at the end of “Shelter for a Night”?
(a) They will return back to the plantation.
(b) They are leaving the next morning.
(c) They will leave her after a month.
(d) They will stay here for a week.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the old black man cooking when Jane and Ned encounter him in “Hunter”?

2. What does the white woman give to Jane and Ned on the road in “All Kinds of People”?

3. What word from the Introduction refers to something that recurs again and again?

4. By what name is Miss Jane called as a slave-child on the plantation?

5. Who is Ned's mother?

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