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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: The War Years (Shelter for a Night – Rednecks and Scalawags).

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 killed in a threshing machine accident.
(c) She hung herself in the slave quarters.
(d) She was shot by a slave master.

2. What does the white woman give to Jane and Ned on the road in “All Kinds of People”?
(a) Flour.
(b) Salt.
(c) Water.
(d) Money.

3. Why do the blacks that Jane and Ned encounter mock her in “Heading South”?
(a) They mock her idea of making it to Ohio.
(b) They mock her for attempting to learn to read.
(c) They mock her for leaving Tee Bob.
(d) They mock her for not wanting to marry.

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

5. Who is Miss Jane's strongest defender in the Introduction?
(a) Mary Hodges.
(b) Amma Dean.
(c) Judy Major.
(d) Clamp Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what narrative tense is the Introduction related?

2. How old is Miss Jane Pittman's caretaker described as in the Introduction?

3. What does the old man show Ned and Jane to help them on their journey in “An Old Man"?

4. Who is Ned's mother?

5. Why are Jane and Ned denied passage on the ferry in “Shelter for a Night”?

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