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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. Who is the woman that lives in the same house and looks after Miss Jane, according to the narrator in the Introduction?
(a) Mary Agnes LeFabre.
(b) Amma Dean.
(c) Mary Hodges.
(d) Madame Gautier.

2. Why does Tee Bob return in “A Flower in Winter”?
(a) To attend the funeral of his mother.
(b) To attend the funeral of his uncle.
(c) To attend the funeral of his sister.
(d) To attend the funeral of his father.

3. Where does Job give Ned and Jane a place to sleep in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?
(a) In his basement.
(b) In a spare bedroom behind the house.
(c) In his attic.
(d) In an empty food crib outside the house.

4. What does the narrator say he teaches in the Introduction?
(a) Biology.
(b) Geography.
(c) English.
(d) History.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Union soldier invite Jane to visit him after the emancipation in "Soldiers"?

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

3. Which of Samson's sons was born of a black woman on the plantation in “Two Brothers of the South”?

4. What was the term "creole" originally used for?

5. Who is the eldest of Samson's sons in “Two Brothers of the South”?

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