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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. What is playtime dependent upon for Jane in “All Kinds of People”?
(a) She must work in the nursery.
(b) She must plow the fields.
(c) She must pick cotton from the fields.
(d) She must learn the alphabet.

2. Where does the Union soldier invite Jane to visit him after the emancipation in "Soldiers"?
(a) Texas.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Ohio.
(d) New York.

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

4. What does Jane describe as her chore on the plantation all day when the soldiers were to come in "Soldiers"?
(a) Cooking stew.
(b) Feeding babies.
(c) Hauling water.
(d) Breaking rocks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from the Introduction means unwilling to admit or accept something as truth?

2. Who is the plantation owner that Job takes Ned and Jane to meet in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?

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

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

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

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