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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Until what year is Ned's school in operation?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1927.

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

4. What is Joe Pittman's position when Jane marries him?
(a) He is a horse breaker.
(b) He is a field worker.
(c) He is a butler in the Big House.
(d) He is a cook.

5. Where was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) Mississiippi.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Maryland.

6. What word from the Introduction refers to something that recurs again and again?
(a) Arrogance.
(b) Repetitious.
(c) Deliverance.
(d) Impudence.

7. Where did the white woman that is accompanied by the black flee from in “Heading South”?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Texas.

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

9. Where does the majority of the acton take place in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Georgia.

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

11. What name has Ned taken on in “Ned Leaves Home”?
(a) Edward Agnes LeFabre.
(b) Edward Cluveau.
(c) Edward Stephen Douglass.
(d) Edward James Wilson.

12. How many years later does Cluveau die after his confrontation with Jane in “The Chariot of Hell”?
(a) 10 years later.
(b) 2 years later.
(c) 5 years later.
(d) 3 years later.

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

14. Whom do each member of the black plantation community take turns feeding in “A Flicker of Light; and Again Darkness”?
(a) The schoolteacher.
(b) The cook.
(c) The slave master.
(d) The field runner.

15. What happens to Ned's murderer in “The People”?
(a) He is hanged for murder and assassination.
(b) He is jailed for 6 months.
(c) The judge drops the case against him.
(d) He is jailed for 3 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Miss Jane Pittman's caretaker described as in the Introduction?

3. What do Ned and Jane ask of Job in “An Old Man"?

4. Whose shotgun does Miss Jane's caretaker threaten to get if needed in the Introduction?

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

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