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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 is playtime dependent upon for Jane in “All Kinds of People”?
(a) She must work in the nursery.
(b) She must learn the alphabet.
(c) She must plow the fields.
(d) She must pick cotton from the fields.

2. Where does Ned's family go after his death in “The People”?
(a) To Kansas.
(b) To Arkansas.
(c) To Ohio.
(d) To Missouri.

3. What has led to the decline of the Samson Plantation in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1)?
(a) The foreclosures of banks.
(b) The leasing of land to the Cajuns.
(c) The disappearance of a black labor force.
(d) Samson's suicide.

4. Where does Tee Bob return from in “A Flower in Winter”?
(a) New York.
(b) Baton Rouge.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Amarillo.

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 typewriter.
(d) With a reel-to-reel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What invention has lessened the need for laborers on the plantations in Book 4: The Quarters (Part 1)?

2. Hold is Miss Jane Pittman described in the Introduction?

3. Why does Tee Bob return in “A Flower in Winter”?

4. Where does Ned go to collect building materials in “Assassination”?

5. What impasse have Jane and Ned reached at the end of “Massacre”?

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