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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Miss Jane's strongest defender in the Introduction?
(a) Amma Dean.
(b) Judy Major.
(c) Clamp Brown.
(d) Mary Hodges.

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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) Feeding babies.
(d) Hauling water.

10. What does Jane inform Ned as they are going to sleep at the end of “Shelter for a Night”?
(a) They are leaving the next morning.
(b) They will return back to the plantation.
(c) They will leave her after a month.
(d) They will stay here for a week.

11. For how much money per month is Jane hired on at the plantation in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?
(a) $6.
(b) $20.
(c) $10.
(d) $3.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills Ned in “Assassination”?

2. Where does Ned's family go after his death in “The People”?

3. What does the old man show Ned and Jane to help them on their journey in “An Old Man"?

4. Where is Ned's body laid to rest in “Assassination”?

5. In “Another Home,” Joe finds work at a ranch near the border with what state?

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