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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Reconstruction (A Flicker of Light and Again Darkness – A Dollar for Two).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Miss Jane's strongest defender in the Introduction?
(a) Clamp Brown.
(b) Mary Hodges.
(c) Judy Major.
(d) Amma Dean.

3. Whom does the narrator thank in concluding the Introduction?
(a) "The historians who came before me and those who continue to bring the truth to the surface."
(b) "All the wonderful people who were at Miss Jane's house through those long months of interviewing her."
(c) "The Samson family, for delivering Jane to her true home."
(d) "Judy Major, Amma Dean, and Madame Gautier for their stories, letters, and correspondence."

4. What word from the Introduction means unwilling to admit or accept something as truth?
(a) Impudent.
(b) Incredulous.
(c) Illiterate.
(d) Stagnant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ned's mother?

2. By what name is Miss Jane called as a slave-child on the plantation?

3. Hold is Miss Jane Pittman described in the Introduction?

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

5. What does the white woman give to Jane and Ned on the road in “All Kinds of People”?

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