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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: The Plantation (The LeFarbre Family – Robert and Mary).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose shotgun does Miss Jane's caretaker threaten to get if needed in the Introduction?
(a) Amma Dean's shotgun.
(b) Harriet's shotgun.
(c) Judy Major's shotgun.
(d) Etienne's shotgun.

2. What word from the Introduction means unwilling to admit or accept something as truth?
(a) Impudent.
(b) Stagnant.
(c) Incredulous.
(d) Illiterate.

3. How long after Ned's absence does Jane receive word from him in “Two Letters from Kansas”?
(a) After he's been gone two years.
(b) After he's been gone a month.
(c) After he's been gone six months.
(d) After he's been gone a year.

4. What word from the narrative refers to an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles?
(a) Dago.
(b) Cajuns.
(c) Indo.
(d) Creole.

5. What is destroyed in the flood described in “Of Men and Rivers”?
(a) Jane's house.
(b) The hanging tree.
(c) The town temple.
(d) Ned's schoolhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the woman that lives in the same house and looks after Miss Jane, according to the narrator in the Introduction?

2. Who is the eldest of Samson's sons in “Two Brothers of the South”?

3. What does Jane give to Ned after the massacre in “Massacre”?

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

5. Who do Jane and Ned ask for when they encounter the Union soldiers in “All Kinds of People”?

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