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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 are the poor whites called that make it their job to track down slaves in “Massacre”?
(a) Cajuns.
(b) Patrollers.
(c) Blackhawks.
(d) Turkeys.

2. Whose inspiration has led Ned to the decision to open a school to meet the educational needs of local blacks in “Professor Douglass”?
(a) The influences of Jack Frost and Robert Wilson.
(b) The influences of Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass.
(c) The influences of Albert Einstein and Henry David Thoreau.
(d) The influences of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Walt Whitman.

3. How long after Ned's absence does Jane receive word from him in “Two Letters from Kansas”?
(a) After he's been gone two years.
(b) After he's been gone a year.
(c) After he's been gone six months.
(d) After he's been gone a month.

4. Whom do each member of the black plantation community take turns feeding in “A Flicker of Light; and Again Darkness”?
(a) The cook.
(b) The schoolteacher.
(c) The slave master.
(d) The field runner.

5. What does Jane inform Ned as they are going to sleep at the end of “Shelter for a Night”?
(a) They will return back to the plantation.
(b) They will leave her after a month.
(c) They will stay here for a week.
(d) They are leaving the next morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What imposing woman leads the slaves on their journey in “Heading North”?

2. Who does the old black man say he is attempting to find in “Hunter”?

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

4. Where does Job give Ned and Jane a place to sleep in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?

5. Who is the plantation owner that Job takes Ned and Jane to meet in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?

(see the answer key)

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