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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. How does the narrator "sign off" in the conclusion of the Introduction?
(a) "The historian."
(b) "The author."
(c) "Your friend."
(d) "The editor."

2. Who is Miss Jane's strongest defender in the Introduction?
(a) Judy Major.
(b) Mary Hodges.
(c) Clamp Brown.
(d) Amma Dean.

3. Where does Jane work on the plantation in “Samson”?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) In the fields.
(c) In the nursery.
(d) In the school.

4. For what is a black girl arrested in Jimmy's plan in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 2)?
(a) Drinking from a white water fountain.
(b) Sitting in the front of a bus.
(c) Going to a white school.
(d) Going into an all-white store.

5. When was the first movement of the Ku Klux Klan formed in America?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1701.
(d) 1892.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does the narrator describe his sessions lasting with Miss Jane in the Introduction?

2. In “The Travels of Miss Jane Pittman,” Jane has a vision of herself burdened with what?

3. Why does Jane become angry and beat a man with a stick in “Heading North”?

4. When did the African-American Civil Rights Movement begin?

5. Where was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?

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