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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the narrator thank in concluding the Introduction?
(a) "The Samson family, for delivering Jane to her true home."
(b) "The historians who came before me and those who continue to bring the truth to the surface."
(c) "Judy Major, Amma Dean, and Madame Gautier for their stories, letters, and correspondence."
(d) "All the wonderful people who were at Miss Jane's house through those long months of interviewing her."

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

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

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

5. How much additional money does Dye demand from Joe for interest when he shows up with Dye's original demand in “Another Home”?
(a) $30 additional dollars.
(b) $10 additional dollars.
(c) $20 additional dollars.
(d) $50 additional dollars.

6. What options are the slaves on Jane's plantation given after they've been freed in "Freedom"?
(a) They can stay and learn to read or they can leave to fend for themselves.
(b) They can lease land to farm as their own or they can work for the plantation.
(c) They can stay as hired laborers or leave to fend for themselves.
(d) They can leave or they can work their way up to master.

7. What is the old black man cooking when Jane and Ned encounter him in “Hunter”?
(a) A duck.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A fish.
(d) A chicken.

8. How does Jane describe her mother's death in “Heading South”?
(a) She was beaten to death by a slave master.
(b) She was shot by a slave master.
(c) She was killed in a threshing machine accident.
(d) She hung herself in the slave quarters.

9. What does the white woman give to Jane and Ned on the road in “All Kinds of People”?
(a) Flour.
(b) Money.
(c) Water.
(d) Salt.

10. Who is the plantation owner that Job takes Ned and Jane to meet in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?
(a) Mr. Bones.
(b) Mr. Samson.
(c) Mr. Major.
(d) Mr. Cluveau.

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 Jack Frost and Robert Wilson.
(b) The influences of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Walt Whitman.
(c) The influences of Albert Einstein and Henry David Thoreau.
(d) The influences of Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass.

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

13. Where do Ned and Jane encounter the old white man in “An Old Man"?
(a) Fishing by the river.
(b) Oh the porch of a house in the swamp.
(c) Waiting at a train station.
(d) Standing near a church.

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

15. How many in Jane's party are killed by the whites in “Massacre”?
(a) 4.
(b) All but 2.
(c) 5.
(d) All but Jane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What imposing woman leads the slaves on their journey in “Heading North”?

2. Hold is Miss Jane Pittman described in the Introduction?

3. What does Ned say he is doing in Kansas when he writes to Jane in “Two Letters from Kansas”?

4. For how long does the narrator describe his sessions lasting with Miss Jane in the Introduction?

5. Who kills Ned in “Assassination”?

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