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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 word from the Introduction refers to something that recurs again and again?
(a) Deliverance.
(b) Arrogance.
(c) Repetitious.
(d) Impudence.

2. Who does the old black man say he is attempting to find in “Hunter”?
(a) His aunt.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His brother.

3. When was the first movement of the Ku Klux Klan formed in America?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1701.

4. Who is the woman that lives in the same house and looks after Miss Jane, according to the narrator in the Introduction?
(a) Madame Gautier.
(b) Amma Dean.
(c) Mary Hodges.
(d) Mary Agnes LeFabre.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Pap described as in the Introduction?

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

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

4. What is Joe Pittman's position when Jane marries him?

5. From what narrative tense is the Introduction related?

(see the answer key)

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