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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. How does the narrator describe recording Miss Jane's story in the Introduction?
(a) With a tape recorder.
(b) With a reel-to-reel.
(c) With a typewriter.
(d) With a pen and paper.

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

3. What does the old man show Ned and Jane to help them on their journey in “An Old Man"?
(a) A railway schedule.
(b) A map of the U.S.
(c) A history book.
(d) A newspaper.

4. Why does Jane become angry and beat a man with a stick in “Heading North”?
(a) Because he attempted to stteal her bag of food.
(b) Because he attempted to hit Hardy.
(c) Because he decided to adopt her last name of Brown.
(d) Because he attempted to take Ned's flint from him.

5. What does the white woman give to Jane and Ned on the road in “All Kinds of People”?
(a) Water.
(b) Salt.
(c) Flour.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ned say he is doing in Kansas when he writes to Jane in “Two Letters from Kansas”?

2. What is the white man's position who approaches Jane and Ned in “Shelter for a Night”?

3. The white woman tells Jane and Ned in “Heading South” that they won't find a way to cross the river without what?

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

5. Who buys the plantation back in “A Flicker of Light; and Again Darkness”?

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