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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who kills Ned in “Assassination”?
(a) Colonel Dye.
(b) Albert Cluveau.
(c) Clamp Brown.
(d) Corporal Brown.

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

3. What eventually leads to the closing down of Ned's school?
(a) It is demolished by the KKK.
(b) It is burned down by the KKK.
(c) It is destroyed in a flood.
(d) It is burned in a forest fire.

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

5. Who buys the plantation back in “A Flicker of Light; and Again Darkness”?
(a) Albert Cluveau.
(b) Corporal Brown.
(c) Colonel Dye.
(d) Tom Joe.

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

7. The white woman tells Jane and Ned in “Heading South” that they won't find a way to cross the river without what?
(a) A raft.
(b) Money for the ferry.
(c) A white chaperone.
(d) A boat.

8. For how long does the narrator describe his sessions lasting with Miss Jane in the Introduction?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 2-3 years.
(c) 6-7 months.
(d) 8-9 months.

9. What is the white man's position who approaches Jane and Ned in “Shelter for a Night”?
(a) He is a game warden.
(b) He is a bounty hunter.
(c) He is a local mayor.
(d) He is a government investigator.

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

11. What does Jane give to Ned after the massacre in “Massacre”?
(a) His mother's flint.
(b) A bag of food.
(c) A book from her bag.
(d) A belt buckle.

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

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

14. What imposing woman leads the slaves on their journey in “Heading North”?
(a) Big Laura.
(b) Madame Gautier.
(c) Black Harriet.
(d) Amma Dean.

15. 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) Mary Hodges.
(c) Mary Agnes LeFabre.
(d) Amma Dean.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Joe Pittman killed?

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

3. How long after the narrator's last interview with Miss Jane does he say she died in the Introduction?

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

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

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