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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 does the narrator say he teaches in the Introduction?
(a) Biology.
(b) English.
(c) Geography.
(d) History.

2. What imposing woman leads the slaves on their journey in “Heading North”?
(a) Black Harriet.
(b) Big Laura.
(c) Madame Gautier.
(d) Amma Dean.

3. Where did the white woman that is accompanied by the black flee from in “Heading South”?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Texas.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Mississippi.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jane inform Ned as they are going to sleep at the end of “Shelter for a Night”?

2. Why does the Klan show up at Jane's doorway in “Ned Leaves Home”?

3. Where was Frederick Douglass born?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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