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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Where does Jane decide to go after the slaves on her plantation are freed in "Freedom"?
(a) To Missouri.
(b) To Ohio.
(c) To Pennsylvania.
(d) To New York.

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

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

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

10. Where is Ned's body laid to rest in “Assassination”?
(a) In Jane's yard.
(b) In Kentucky.
(c) Next to the black church.
(d) In the yard of the school.

11. How much money does Dye demand from Joe for leaving the plantation in “Another Home”?
(a) $150.
(b) $200.
(c) $400.
(d) $50.

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

13. How many children does Ned have when he visits Jane in “Professor Douglass”?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

14. What are the Confederate soldiers called in "Soldiers"?
(a) Cajuns.
(b) Bootleggers.
(c) Secesh.
(d) Hardies.

15. Where does Ned go to collect building materials in “Assassination”?
(a) Baton Rouge.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Bayonne.
(d) Oxford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jane move to live with the fisherman after Joe's death?

2. Whom do each member of the black plantation community take turns feeding in “A Flicker of Light; and Again Darkness”?

3. What impasse have Jane and Ned reached at the end of “Massacre”?

4. What word from the Introduction refers to something that recurs again and again?

5. Why does Ned get into a fight in “All Kinds of People”?

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