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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4: The Quarters (Part 2).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What organization did Martin Luther King, Jr. help found in 1957?
(a) The Youth and College League.
(b) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
(c) The Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
(d) The League for the Betterment of African Americans.

3. Who kills Ned in “Assassination”?
(a) Corporal Brown.
(b) Albert Cluveau.
(c) Colonel Dye.
(d) Clamp Brown.

4. Who is the woman that lives in the same house and looks after Miss Jane, according to the narrator in the Introduction?
(a) Amma Dean.
(b) Mary Hodges.
(c) Mary Agnes LeFabre.
(d) Madame Gautier.

5. 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 leaving Tee Bob.
(c) They mock her for attempting to learn to read.
(d) They mock her for not wanting to marry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes with the sheriff to question Mary Agnes in "The Samson House"?

2. During what years did Huey P. Long serves as the Governor of Louisiana?

3. Who replaces the driver that backs out on the evening before the march in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 2)?

4. When was Frederick Douglass born?

5. Until what year is Ned's school in operation?

(see the answer key)

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