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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impasse have Jane and Ned reached at the end of “Massacre”?
(a) A cliffside.
(b) A giant lake.
(c) A river.
(d) A swamp.

2. By what name is Miss Jane called as a slave-child on the plantation?
(a) Laura.
(b) Amma.
(c) Ticey.
(d) Beebi.

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

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

5. Who is the Union soldier that tells Jane the slaves are about to be freed in "Soldiers"?
(a) Colonel Dye.
(b) Colonel Jackson.
(c) Colonel Black.
(d) Corporal Brown.

6. What are the poor whites called that make it their job to track down slaves in “Massacre”?
(a) Cajuns.
(b) Blackhawks.
(c) Patrollers.
(d) Turkeys.

7. Why does Ned later enlist in the army, according to Jane in “Two Letters from Kansas”?
(a) To help with the war effort in Japan.
(b) To help with the war effort in Mexico.
(c) To help with the war effort in Germany.
(d) To help with the war effort in Cuba.

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

9. How old is Ned described in “Ned Leaves Home”?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 17.

10. In “Another Home,” Joe finds work at a ranch near the border with what state?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Texas.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Arkansas.

11. Whose inspiration has led Ned to the decision to open a school to meet the educational needs of local blacks in “Professor Douglass”?
(a) The influences of Albert Einstein and Henry David Thoreau.
(b) The influences of Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass.
(c) The influences of Jack Frost and Robert Wilson.
(d) The influences of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Walt Whitman.

12. The slave that the old black man is trying to find in “Hunter” was purchased where?
(a) In Texas.
(b) In Mississippi.
(c) In Arkansas.
(d) In Mississippi.

13. What does Jane receive from Madam Gautier in “Man’s Way”?
(a) Powder.
(b) Perfume.
(c) Wax.
(d) Oil.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Until what year is Ned's school in operation?

2. What does Jane inform Ned as they are going to sleep at the end of “Shelter for a Night”?

3. How does Job's wife respond when he brings Ned and Jane home in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?

4. Who buys the plantation back in “A Flicker of Light; and Again Darkness”?

5. Why do the blacks that Jane and Ned encounter mock her in “Heading South”?

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