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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Reconstruction (Man’s Way – The Chariot of Hell).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ned say he is doing in Kansas when he writes to Jane in “Two Letters from Kansas”?
(a) Building roads.
(b) Assembling black for demonstration marches.
(c) Running a school.
(d) Helping with the relocation of blacks.

2. How does Jane describe her mother's death in “Heading South”?
(a) She hung herself in the slave quarters.
(b) She was beaten to death by a slave master.
(c) She was killed in a threshing machine accident.
(d) She was shot by a slave master.

3. Why does the Klan show up at Jane's doorway in “Ned Leaves Home”?
(a) Because Ned refuses to stop helping blacks escape.
(b) Because she was caught stealing.
(c) Because she accused a white man of attacking her.
(d) Because she tried to run away.

4. Why does Ned later enlist in the army, according to Jane in “Two Letters from Kansas”?
(a) To help with the war effort in Cuba.
(b) To help with the war effort in Japan.
(c) To help with the war effort in Germany.
(d) To help with the war effort in Mexico.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the narrator thank in concluding the Introduction?

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

3. When was Frederick Douglass born?

4. Who is Miss Jane's strongest defender in the Introduction?

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

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