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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 swamp.
(b) A river.
(c) A giant lake.
(d) A cliffside.

2. Who is the fisherman that Jane lives with after Joe's death?
(a) Ned.
(b) Hardy.
(c) Timmy.
(d) Felton.

3. Whom does Albert Cluveau say he has been enlisted to kill in “Albert Cluveau”?
(a) Timmy.
(b) Tom Joe.
(c) Ned.
(d) Jimmy.

4. How is Joe Pittman killed?
(a) He is beaten to death by a master.
(b) He is hit by a train.
(c) Trying to break a horse.
(d) He commits suicide.

5. Whose shotgun does Miss Jane's caretaker threaten to get if needed in the Introduction?
(a) Harriet's shotgun.
(b) Etienne's shotgun.
(c) Judy Major's shotgun.
(d) Amma Dean's shotgun.

6. How does the white man help Jane and Ned in “Shelter for a Night”?
(a) He gains them passage across the river.
(b) He sells them a gun.
(c) He returns them to their plantation.
(d) He calls the police when a mob tries to attack Jane and Ned.

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

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

9. From what narrative tense is the Introduction related?
(a) Past tense.
(b) Future passive tense.
(c) Future tense.
(d) Present tense.

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

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

12. When was Frederick Douglass born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1829.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Jane and Ned ask for when they encounter the Union soldiers in “All Kinds of People”?

2. What eventually leads to the closing down of Ned's school?

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

4. How does Jane describe her mother's death in “Heading South”?

5. When was the first movement of the Ku Klux Klan formed in America?

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