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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 is playtime dependent upon for Jane in “All Kinds of People”?
(a) She must work in the nursery.
(b) She must plow the fields.
(c) She must pick cotton from the fields.
(d) She must learn the alphabet.

2. What is Joe Pittman's position when Jane marries him?
(a) He is a horse breaker.
(b) He is a field worker.
(c) He is a butler in the Big House.
(d) He is a cook.

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

4. What job does Ned eventually take, according to Jane in “Two Letters from Kansas”?
(a) He becomes an author.
(b) He becomes a lawyer.
(c) He becomes a teacher.
(d) He becomes a doctor.

5. What does Jane give to Ned after the massacre in “Massacre”?
(a) A book from her bag.
(b) His mother's flint.
(c) A belt buckle.
(d) A bag of food.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years have passed on the ranch in the opening of “A Dollar for Two”?

2. In “Another Home,” Joe finds work at a ranch near the border with what state?

3. How many in Jane's party are killed by the whites in “Massacre”?

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

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

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