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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 the narrator describe recording Miss Jane's story in the Introduction?
(a) With a reel-to-reel.
(b) With a tape recorder.
(c) With a pen and paper.
(d) With a typewriter.

2. Where do Ned and Jane encounter the old white man in “An Old Man"?
(a) Oh the porch of a house in the swamp.
(b) Standing near a church.
(c) Fishing by the river.
(d) Waiting at a train station.

3. What imposing woman leads the slaves on their journey in “Heading North”?
(a) Black Harriet.
(b) Amma Dean.
(c) Madame Gautier.
(d) Big Laura.

4. Where does Jane decide to go after the slaves on her plantation are freed in "Freedom"?
(a) To Ohio.
(b) To New York.
(c) To Missouri.
(d) To Pennsylvania.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jane inform Ned as they are going to sleep at the end of “Shelter for a Night”?

2. How old is Pap described as in the Introduction?

3. What is the white man's position who approaches Jane and Ned in “Shelter for a Night”?

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

5. What does Jane describe as her chore on the plantation all day when the soldiers were to come in "Soldiers"?

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