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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Ned described in “Ned Leaves Home”?
(a) 20.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

2. What does Jane receive from Madam Gautier in “Man’s Way”?
(a) Wax.
(b) Powder.
(c) Oil.
(d) Perfume.

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

4. What imposing woman leads the slaves on their journey in “Heading North”?
(a) Black Harriet.
(b) Madame Gautier.
(c) Big Laura.
(d) Amma Dean.

5. Where did the white woman that is accompanied by the black flee from in “Heading South”?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Texas.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Kentucky.

6. What do Ned and Jane ask of Job in “An Old Man"?
(a) For directions to Arkansas.
(b) For a cup of water.
(c) For a newspaper.
(d) For a ride in his wagon.

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

8. Where is Madame Gautier from?
(a) Baton Rouge.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Little Rock.

9. Whose inspiration has led Ned to the decision to open a school to meet the educational needs of local blacks in “Professor Douglass”?
(a) The influences of Albert Einstein and Henry David Thoreau.
(b) The influences of Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass.
(c) The influences of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Walt Whitman.
(d) The influences of Jack Frost and Robert Wilson.

10. What job does Ned eventually take, according to Jane in “Two Letters from Kansas”?
(a) He becomes a doctor.
(b) He becomes a teacher.
(c) He becomes a lawyer.
(d) He becomes an author.

11. Where is Ned's body laid to rest in “Assassination”?
(a) Next to the black church.
(b) In the yard of the school.
(c) In Kentucky.
(d) In Jane's yard.

12. Who buys the plantation back in “A Flicker of Light; and Again Darkness”?
(a) Albert Cluveau.
(b) Corporal Brown.
(c) Colonel Dye.
(d) Tom Joe.

13. How old is Miss Jane Pittman's caretaker described as in the Introduction?
(a) She is in her early 60s.
(b) She is in her mid-40s.
(c) She is in her late 30s.
(d) She is in her early 50s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Ned later enlist in the army, according to Jane in “Two Letters from Kansas”?

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

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

5. Where does Ned's family go after his death in “The People”?

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