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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 does Jane inform Ned as they are going to sleep at the end of “Shelter for a Night”?
(a) They will return back to the plantation.
(b) They will leave her after a month.
(c) They will stay here for a week.
(d) They are leaving the next morning.

2. Who is the Union soldier that tells Jane the slaves are about to be freed in "Soldiers"?
(a) Colonel Black.
(b) Corporal Brown.
(c) Colonel Jackson.
(d) Colonel Dye.

3. Why does Jane become angry and beat a man with a stick in “Heading North”?
(a) Because he decided to adopt her last name of Brown.
(b) Because he attempted to hit Hardy.
(c) Because he attempted to take Ned's flint from him.
(d) Because he attempted to stteal her bag of food.

4. Whose shotgun does Miss Jane's caretaker threaten to get if needed in the Introduction?
(a) Amma Dean's shotgun.
(b) Harriet's shotgun.
(c) Judy Major's shotgun.
(d) Etienne's shotgun.

5. Why are Jane and Ned denied passage on the ferry in “Shelter for a Night”?
(a) They do not have shoes on.
(b) They do not have emancipation papers.
(c) They are black.
(d) They don't have enough money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jane describe her mother's death in “Heading South”?

2. Where does Jane decide to go after the slaves on her plantation are freed in "Freedom"?

3. What do Ned and Jane ask of Job in “An Old Man"?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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