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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Reconstruction (Man’s Way – The Chariot of Hell).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the white man's position who approaches Jane and Ned in “Shelter for a Night”?
(a) He is a bounty hunter.
(b) He is a game warden.
(c) He is a government investigator.
(d) He is a local mayor.

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

3. Why does Ned get into a fight in “All Kinds of People”?
(a) A boy tries to steal his flint.
(b) Someone hits Jane.
(c) A man accuses him of theft.
(d) A boy steals his books.

4. From what narrative tense is the Introduction related?
(a) Future passive tense.
(b) Future tense.
(c) Past tense.
(d) Present tense.

5. What are the Confederate soldiers called in "Soldiers"?
(a) Hardies.
(b) Cajuns.
(c) Bootleggers.
(d) Secesh.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator "sign off" in the conclusion of the Introduction?

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

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

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

5. What eventually leads to the closing down of Ned's school?

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