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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. Why are Jane and Ned denied passage on the ferry in “Shelter for a Night”?
(a) They are black.
(b) They do not have shoes on.
(c) They do not have emancipation papers.
(d) They don't have enough money.

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

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

4. How many in Jane's party are killed by the whites in “Massacre”?
(a) All but 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) All but Jane.

5. Why does the Klan show up at Jane's doorway in “Ned Leaves Home”?
(a) Because Ned refuses to stop helping blacks escape.
(b) Because she tried to run away.
(c) Because she was caught stealing.
(d) Because she accused a white man of attacking her.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator make arrangements to come and hear Miss Jane's story in the Introduction?

2. What job does Ned eventually take, according to Jane in “Two Letters from Kansas”?

3. Whom does Albert Cluveau say he has been enlisted to kill in “Albert Cluveau”?

4. Who is Ned's mother?

5. Whom do each member of the black plantation community take turns feeding in “A Flicker of Light; and Again Darkness”?

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