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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: The Plantation (The LeFarbre Family – Robert and Mary).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Ned and Jane encounter the old white man in “An Old Man"?
(a) Waiting at a train station.
(b) Fishing by the river.
(c) Oh the porch of a house in the swamp.
(d) Standing near a church.

2. Where was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) Mississiippi.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Maryland.
(d) Ohio.

3. During what years did Huey P. Long serves as the Governor of Louisiana?
(a) 1859-1862.
(b) 1928-1932.
(c) 1919-1925.
(d) 1935-1945.

4. When does the flood occur that is described in “Of Men and Rivers”?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1959.

5. Who is the fisherman that Jane lives with after Joe's death?
(a) Timmy.
(b) Felton.
(c) Hardy.
(d) Ned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is used in the narrative to describe a person who is one-eighth black?

2. How does Job's wife respond when he brings Ned and Jane home in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?

3. When was Frederick Douglass born?

4. What are the Confederate soldiers called in "Soldiers"?

5. What is Joe Pittman's position when Jane marries him?

(see the answer key)

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