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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: The Plantation (The Samson House).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the Union soldier invite Jane to visit him after the emancipation in "Soldiers"?
(a) Texas.
(b) New York.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Ohio.

2. Where does Jane decide to go after the slaves on her plantation are freed in "Freedom"?
(a) To New York.
(b) To Ohio.
(c) To Pennsylvania.
(d) To Missouri.

3. Whose inspiration has led Ned to the decision to open a school to meet the educational needs of local blacks in “Professor Douglass”?
(a) The influences of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Walt Whitman.
(b) The influences of Albert Einstein and Henry David Thoreau.
(c) The influences of Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass.
(d) The influences of Jack Frost and Robert Wilson.

4. How is Tee Bob's death reported in the paper?
(a) As an unsolved murder.
(b) As a homicide.
(c) Simply as a suicide.
(d) As a freak accident.

5. How much money does Dye demand from Joe for leaving the plantation in “Another Home”?
(a) $150.
(b) $50.
(c) $400.
(d) $200.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tee Bob engaged to in “Confession”?

2. Who is the Union soldier that tells Jane the slaves are about to be freed in "Soldiers"?

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

4. When was Huey P. Long born?

5. What does the old man show Ned and Jane to help them on their journey in “An Old Man"?

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