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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. What are the Confederate soldiers called in "Soldiers"?
(a) Bootleggers.
(b) Hardies.
(c) Secesh.
(d) Cajuns.

2. Where does Job give Ned and Jane a place to sleep in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?
(a) In an empty food crib outside the house.
(b) In a spare bedroom behind the house.
(c) In his basement.
(d) In his attic.

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

4. What word from the Introduction refers to something that recurs again and again?
(a) Impudence.
(b) Deliverance.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Repetitious.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ned get into a fight in “All Kinds of People”?

2. How does the narrator "sign off" in the conclusion of the Introduction?

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

4. Who does the old black man say he is attempting to find in “Hunter”?

5. For how long does the narrator describe his sessions lasting with Miss Jane in the Introduction?

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