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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: The Plantation (Samson – Miss Lilly).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much additional money does Dye demand from Joe for interest when he shows up with Dye's original demand in “Another Home”?
(a) $10 additional dollars.
(b) $50 additional dollars.
(c) $30 additional dollars.
(d) $20 additional dollars.

2. Who is the fisherman that Jane lives with after Joe's death?
(a) Timmy.
(b) Felton.
(c) Ned.
(d) Hardy.

3. What was Huey P. Long's nickname?
(a) "The Cowboy."
(b) "The Kingfish."
(c) "The Inquisitor."
(d) "The Hustler."

4. What happens to Ned's murderer in “The People”?
(a) The judge drops the case against him.
(b) He is jailed for 6 months.
(c) He is hanged for murder and assassination.
(d) He is jailed for 3 years.

5. 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 Jack Frost and Robert Wilson.
(b) The influences of Albert Einstein and Henry David Thoreau.
(c) The influences of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Walt Whitman.
(d) The influences of Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Ned's mother?

3. Who kills Ned in “Assassination”?

4. How does Job's wife respond when he brings Ned and Jane home in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?

5. In “Another Home,” Joe finds work at a ranch near the border with what state?

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