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

2. How does the narrator describe recording Miss Jane's story in the Introduction?
(a) With a reel-to-reel.
(b) With a pen and paper.
(c) With a typewriter.
(d) With a tape recorder.

3. Where does Jane eventually encounter Cluveau and confront him in “The Chariot of Hell”?
(a) By the river.
(b) At the butcher.
(c) At the train station.
(d) In church.

4. Which of Samson's sons was born of a black woman on the plantation in “Two Brothers of the South”?
(a) Timmy.
(b) Tee Bob.
(c) Ned.
(d) Tom Joe.

5. The slave that the old black man is trying to find in “Hunter” was purchased where?
(a) In Mississippi.
(b) In Arkansas.
(c) In Mississippi.
(d) In Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Jane and Ned ask for when they encounter the Union soldiers in “All Kinds of People”?

2. Who replaces Miss Lily after she leaves Samson's plantation?

3. What name has Ned taken on in “Ned Leaves Home”?

4. Whom do each member of the black plantation community take turns feeding in “A Flicker of Light; and Again Darkness”?

5. When was the first movement of the Ku Klux Klan formed in America?

(see the answer key)

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