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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 describe as her chore on the plantation all day when the soldiers were to come in "Soldiers"?
(a) Cooking stew.
(b) Breaking rocks.
(c) Hauling water.
(d) Feeding babies.

2. What is playtime dependent upon for Jane in “All Kinds of People”?
(a) She must plow the fields.
(b) She must pick cotton from the fields.
(c) She must learn the alphabet.
(d) She must work in the nursery.

3. 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.

4. What options are the slaves on Jane's plantation given after they've been freed in "Freedom"?
(a) They can leave or they can work their way up to master.
(b) They can stay and learn to read or they can leave to fend for themselves.
(c) They can stay as hired laborers or leave to fend for themselves.
(d) They can lease land to farm as their own or they can work for the plantation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word from the Introduction refers to something that recurs again and again?

3. Whose shotgun does Miss Jane's caretaker threaten to get if needed in the Introduction?

4. Where does the Union soldier invite Jane to visit him after the emancipation in "Soldiers"?

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

(see the answer key)

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