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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 stay here for a week.
(b) They are leaving the next morning.
(c) They will return back to the plantation.
(d) They will leave her after a month.

2. The slave that the old black man is trying to find in “Hunter” was purchased where?
(a) In Arkansas.
(b) In Mississippi.
(c) In Texas.
(d) In Mississippi.

3. Hold is Miss Jane Pittman described in the Introduction?
(a) She is in her mid-90s.
(b) She is more than 100 years old.
(c) She is in her late 80s.
(d) She is in her mid-70s.

4. What are the poor whites called that make it their job to track down slaves in “Massacre”?
(a) Blackhawks.
(b) Cajuns.
(c) Patrollers.
(d) Turkeys.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the woman that lives in the same house and looks after Miss Jane, according to the narrator in the Introduction?

2. Who is Ned's mother?

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

4. What does the old man show Ned and Jane to help them on their journey in “An Old Man"?

5. How does the narrator describe recording Miss Jane's story in the Introduction?

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