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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Reconstruction (A Flicker of Light and Again Darkness – A Dollar for Two).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many in Jane's party are killed by the whites in “Massacre”?
(a) All but Jane.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) All but 2.

2. How does the white man help Jane and Ned in “Shelter for a Night”?
(a) He returns them to their plantation.
(b) He gains them passage across the river.
(c) He calls the police when a mob tries to attack Jane and Ned.
(d) He sells them a gun.

3. Why does Molly leave her position to find work elsewhere in “Molly”?
(a) Because she was fired for stealing.
(b) Because the mistress of the house refuses to fire Jane.
(c) Because her granddaughter has become ill.
(d) Because she has decided to move to Ohio.

4. Hold is Miss Jane Pittman described in the Introduction?
(a) She is in her late 80s.
(b) She is in her mid-90s.
(c) She is more than 100 years old.
(d) She is in her mid-70s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe recording Miss Jane's story in the Introduction?

2. Where does the Union soldier invite Jane to visit him after the emancipation in "Soldiers"?

3. What does Jane inform Ned as they are going to sleep at the end of “Shelter for a Night”?

4. Why does Jane become angry and beat a man with a stick in “Heading North”?

5. The white woman tells Jane and Ned in “Heading South” that they won't find a way to cross the river without what?

(see the answer key)

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