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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. By what name is Miss Jane called as a slave-child on the plantation?
(a) Laura.
(b) Amma.
(c) Beebi.
(d) Ticey.

2. How does Job's wife respond when he brings Ned and Jane home in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?
(a) With open arms.
(b) Kindly.
(c) With tears.
(d) Angrily.

3. When does the narrator make arrangements to come and hear Miss Jane's story in the Introduction?
(a) On Sunday.
(b) On Thursday.
(c) On Wednesday.
(d) On Monday.

4. What happens to Ned's murderer in “The People”?
(a) He is jailed for 3 years.
(b) He is hanged for murder and assassination.
(c) The judge drops the case against him.
(d) He is jailed for 6 months.

5. Who kills Ned in “Assassination”?
(a) Clamp Brown.
(b) Colonel Dye.
(c) Albert Cluveau.
(d) Corporal Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who buys the plantation back in “A Flicker of Light; and Again Darkness”?

2. What options are the slaves on Jane's plantation given after they've been freed in "Freedom"?

3. What word from the Introduction means unwilling to admit or accept something as truth?

4. From what narrative tense is the Introduction related?

5. When was Frederick Douglass born?

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