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

2. Who buys the plantation back in “A Flicker of Light; and Again Darkness”?
(a) Tom Joe.
(b) Albert Cluveau.
(c) Corporal Brown.
(d) Colonel Dye.

3. Until what year is Ned's school in operation?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1952.

4. What does Tee Bob do as his friend (whom Tee Bob punched) leaves his engagement party?
(a) He raises his glass to him.
(b) He runs after him.
(c) He throws a plate at him.
(d) He hugs him.

5. Where did the white woman that is accompanied by the black flee from in “Heading South”?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Texas.
(d) Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Frederick Douglass born?

2. When does the narrator describe going to the plantation where Miss Jane Pittman lives in the Introduction?

3. Where do Ned and Jane encounter the old white man in “An Old Man"?

4. Where does Jane move to live with the fisherman after Joe's death?

5. What was Huey P. Long's nickname?

(see the answer key)

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