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

2. How is Joe Pittman killed?
(a) Trying to break a horse.
(b) He commits suicide.
(c) He is beaten to death by a master.
(d) He is hit by a train.

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

4. When does the flood occur that is described in “Of Men and Rivers”?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1919.

5. Who does the white man turn into in Jane's vision from “The Travels of Miss Jane Pittman”?
(a) The Devil.
(b) Ned, Joe, and Cluveau.
(c) Madame Gautier.
(d) Mary Agnes LeFabre.

Short Answer Questions

1. The slave that the old black man is trying to find in “Hunter” was purchased where?

2. How does Jane describe her mother's death in “Heading South”?

3. What is the old black man cooking when Jane and Ned encounter him in “Hunter”?

4. In Jane's vision from “The Travels of Miss Jane Pittman,” a person she believes to be God advises her to do what?

5. What does Ned say he is doing in Kansas when he writes to Jane in “Two Letters from Kansas”?

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