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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Job's wife respond when he brings Ned and Jane home in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?
(a) Angrily.
(b) With open arms.
(c) With tears.
(d) Kindly.

2. What term is used in the narrative to describe a person who is one-eighth black?
(a) Cosmopolitan.
(b) Octoroon.
(c) Aryan.
(d) Pinafore.

3. What word from "The Samson House" means to seize and carry off someone by force?
(a) Entrench.
(b) Extropate.
(c) Ravish.
(d) Asphyxiate.

4. Jimmy Aaron is referred to with what title in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1)?
(a) "The Cook."
(b) "The Politician."
(c) "The Activist."
(d) "The One."

5. Where does Jane express desire to return at the plantation after Tee Bob's suicide in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1)?
(a) To the cook's quarters.
(b) To the quarters.
(c) To the schoolroom.
(d) To the attic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Ned eventually take, according to Jane in “Two Letters from Kansas”?

2. Where does Jane eventually encounter Cluveau and confront him in “The Chariot of Hell”?

3. What word is used to mean "godfather" in the narrative?

4. Why does Mary Agnes turn down Tee Bob's suggestion in “Robert and Mary”?

5. Where is Madame Gautier from?

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