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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. When does the narrator describe going to the plantation where Miss Jane Pittman lives in the Introduction?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1962.

2. 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.

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

4. The white woman tells Jane and Ned in “Heading South” that they won't find a way to cross the river without what?
(a) A white chaperone.
(b) Money for the ferry.
(c) A raft.
(d) A boat.

5. Why does Ned get into a fight in “All Kinds of People”?
(a) A boy steals his books.
(b) A boy tries to steal his flint.
(c) A man accuses him of theft.
(d) Someone hits Jane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What imposing woman leads the slaves on their journey in “Heading North”?

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

3. What does Jane inform Ned as they are going to sleep at the end of “Shelter for a Night”?

4. Why does Jane become angry and beat a man with a stick in “Heading North”?

5. For how long does the narrator describe his sessions lasting with Miss Jane in the Introduction?

(see the answer key)

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