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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the narrator make arrangements to come and hear Miss Jane's story in the Introduction?
(a) On Wednesday.
(b) On Monday.
(c) On Sunday.
(d) On Thursday.

2. What job does Ned eventually take, according to Jane in “Two Letters from Kansas”?
(a) He becomes a teacher.
(b) He becomes a lawyer.
(c) He becomes a doctor.
(d) He becomes an author.

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

4. How does Jane describe her mother's death in “Heading South”?
(a) She was shot by a slave master.
(b) She hung herself in the slave quarters.
(c) She was killed in a threshing machine accident.
(d) She was beaten to death by a slave master.

5. Why does Molly leave her position to find work elsewhere in “Molly”?
(a) Because the mistress of the house refuses to fire Jane.
(b) Because she has decided to move to Ohio.
(c) Because her granddaughter has become ill.
(d) Because she was fired for stealing.

6. What does Jane describe as her chore on the plantation all day when the soldiers were to come in "Soldiers"?
(a) Breaking rocks.
(b) Cooking stew.
(c) Hauling water.
(d) Feeding babies.

7. Who is Ned's mother?
(a) Amma Dean.
(b) Big Laura.
(c) Madame Gautier.
(d) Black Harriet.

8. How old is Miss Jane Pittman's caretaker described as in the Introduction?
(a) She is in her early 60s.
(b) She is in her mid-40s.
(c) She is in her early 50s.
(d) She is in her late 30s.

9. Why does Jane become angry and beat a man with a stick in “Heading North”?
(a) Because he attempted to take Ned's flint from him.
(b) Because he attempted to stteal her bag of food.
(c) Because he attempted to hit Hardy.
(d) Because he decided to adopt her last name of Brown.

10. Who is the woman that lives in the same house and looks after Miss Jane, according to the narrator in the Introduction?
(a) Mary Hodges.
(b) Mary Agnes LeFabre.
(c) Madame Gautier.
(d) Amma Dean.

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

12. Where does Jane decide to go after the slaves on her plantation are freed in "Freedom"?
(a) To Ohio.
(b) To New York.
(c) To Missouri.
(d) To Pennsylvania.

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

14. Hold is Miss Jane Pittman described in the Introduction?
(a) She is in her mid-90s.
(b) She is in her mid-70s.
(c) She is in her late 80s.
(d) She is more than 100 years old.

15. Where does Ned go to collect building materials in “Assassination”?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Baton Rouge.
(c) Bayonne.
(d) Oxford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills Ned in “Assassination”?

2. How many years have passed on the ranch in the opening of “A Dollar for Two”?

3. Who is the plantation owner that Job takes Ned and Jane to meet in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?

4. Who is the fisherman that Jane lives with after Joe's death?

5. After how long does the fisherman abandon Jane in “Man’s Way”?

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