View a FREE sample

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

2. When does the narrator describe going to the plantation where Miss Jane Pittman lives in the Introduction?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1968.

3. What does Jane receive from Madam Gautier in “Man’s Way”?
(a) Powder.
(b) Wax.
(c) Oil.
(d) Perfume.

4. What word from the Introduction refers to something that recurs again and again?
(a) Impudence.
(b) Arrogance.
(c) Deliverance.
(d) Repetitious.

5. 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 Albert Einstein and Henry David Thoreau.
(b) The influences of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Walt Whitman.
(c) The influences of Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass.
(d) The influences of Jack Frost and Robert Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Miss Jane Pittman's caretaker described as in the Introduction?

3. What do Ned and Jane ask of Job in “An Old Man"?

4. What is the name of Samson's wife?

5. Where is Madame Gautier from?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 223 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample