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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. Where does Jimmy claim to have been arrested in protests with Martin Luther King, Jr. in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 2)?
(a) In Arkansas and Missouri.
(b) In Texas and Oklahoma.
(c) In Washington, D.C. and New York.
(d) In Alabama and Mississippi.

2. Why does Tee Bob punch his friend at his engagement party?
(a) For suggesting he sleep with Jane.
(b) For suggesting he marry Mary Agnes.
(c) For suggesting he sleep with Mary Agnes.
(d) For suggesting he sleep with Laura.

3. What does Ned say he is doing in Kansas when he writes to Jane in “Two Letters from Kansas”?
(a) Building roads.
(b) Helping with the relocation of blacks.
(c) Running a school.
(d) Assembling black for demonstration marches.

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

5. For how long does the narrator describe his sessions lasting with Miss Jane in the Introduction?
(a) 8-9 months.
(b) 6-7 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 2-3 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives to blame Mary Agnes for the situation of Tee Bob's suicide in "The Samson House"?

2. When was Jackie Robinson born?

3. What term is used in the narrative to describe a person who is one-eighth black?

4. In Jane's vision from “The Travels of Miss Jane Pittman,” a person she believes to be God advises her to do what?

5. What has led to the decline of the Samson Plantation in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1)?

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