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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. How long after the narrator's last interview with Miss Jane does he say she died in the Introduction?
(a) 8 months after the last interview.
(b) 6 months after the last interview.
(c) 2 months after the last interview.
(d) 2 years after the last interview.

2. What name has Ned taken on in “Ned Leaves Home”?
(a) Edward Agnes LeFabre.
(b) Edward Cluveau.
(c) Edward Stephen Douglass.
(d) Edward James Wilson.

3. Where does the Union soldier invite Jane to visit him after the emancipation in "Soldiers"?
(a) New York.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Texas.

4. How old is Miss Jane Pittman's caretaker described as in the Introduction?
(a) She is in her early 60s.
(b) She is in her mid-40s.
(c) She is in her early 50s.
(d) She is in her late 30s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he teaches in the Introduction?

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

3. Until what year is Ned's school in operation?

4. Where does Ned's family go after his death in “The People”?

5. Why do the blacks that Jane and Ned encounter mock her in “Heading South”?

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