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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4: The Quarters (Part 2).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is used in the narrative to describe a person who is one-eighth black?
(a) Aryan.
(b) Octoroon.
(c) Pinafore.
(d) Cosmopolitan.

2. How long after Ned's absence does Jane receive word from him in “Two Letters from Kansas”?
(a) After he's been gone six months.
(b) After he's been gone a year.
(c) After he's been gone a month.
(d) After he's been gone two years.

3. Where does Jimmy go to attend school in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1)?
(a) Houston.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Little Rock.
(d) Topeka.

4. Who replaces the driver that backs out on the evening before the march in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 2)?
(a) Timmy.
(b) Amma Dean.
(c) Olivia.
(d) Julius Jonsson.

5. What organization did Martin Luther King, Jr. help found in 1957?
(a) The Youth and College League.
(b) The Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
(c) The League for the Betterment of African Americans.
(d) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what type of protest was Martin Luther King, Jr. known?

2. Where did the white woman that is accompanied by the black flee from in “Heading South”?

3. What is the old black man cooking when Jane and Ned encounter him in “Hunter”?

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

5. How is the door opened in the room where Tee Bob has locked himself in "The Samson House"?

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