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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. What news is related of Mary Agnes in "The Samson House"?
(a) She has been murdered.
(b) She has been kidnapped.
(c) She has been arrested.
(d) She has been sexually assaulted.

2. What are the poor whites called that make it their job to track down slaves in “Massacre”?
(a) Blackhawks.
(b) Cajuns.
(c) Patrollers.
(d) Turkeys.

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

4. What does Tee Bob suggest to Mary Agnes in “Robert and Mary”?
(a) He suggests running away to New Orleans to marry.
(b) He suggests they flee to Ohio and live there on a ranch.
(c) He suggests they go to Reno and elope.
(d) He suggests she divorce her husband and marry him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Samson's sons is white in “Two Brothers of the South”?

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

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

4. When was Frederick Douglass born?

5. What is Mr. Samson's first name?

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