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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. Why do the blacks that Jane and Ned encounter mock her in “Heading South”?
(a) They mock her for attempting to learn to read.
(b) They mock her for not wanting to marry.
(c) They mock her for leaving Tee Bob.
(d) They mock her idea of making it to Ohio.

2. How does Job's wife respond when he brings Ned and Jane home in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?
(a) Kindly.
(b) With open arms.
(c) With tears.
(d) Angrily.

3. By what name is Miss Jane called as a slave-child on the plantation?
(a) Beebi.
(b) Laura.
(c) Amma.
(d) Ticey.

4. What is the old black man cooking when Jane and Ned encounter him in “Hunter”?
(a) A fish.
(b) A chicken.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A duck.

5. Who is Ned's mother?
(a) Big Laura.
(b) Amma Dean.
(c) Black Harriet.
(d) Madame Gautier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ned get into a fight in “All Kinds of People”?

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

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

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

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

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