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

2. Who does the old black man say he is attempting to find in “Hunter”?
(a) His father.
(b) His brother.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His mother.

3. Until what year is Ned's school in operation?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1952.

4. When was the first movement of the Ku Klux Klan formed in America?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1701.
(d) 1865.

5. Whom does Albert Cluveau say he has been enlisted to kill in “Albert Cluveau”?
(a) Tom Joe.
(b) Timmy.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) Ned.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the overseer on Samson's plantation in “Two Brothers of the South”?

3. When does the flood occur that is described in “Of Men and Rivers”?

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

5. What impasse have Jane and Ned reached at the end of “Massacre”?

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