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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: The War Years (Soldiers – Heading South).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is the woman that lives in the same house and looks after Miss Jane, according to the narrator in the Introduction?
(a) Madame Gautier.
(b) Amma Dean.
(c) Mary Hodges.
(d) Mary Agnes LeFabre.

4. Where does the majority of the acton take place in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Arkansas.

5. How many in Jane's party are killed by the whites in “Massacre”?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) All but Jane.
(d) All but 2.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the blacks that Jane and Ned encounter mock her in “Heading South”?

3. What does the narrator say he teaches in the Introduction?

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

5. What options are the slaves on Jane's plantation given after they've been freed in "Freedom"?

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