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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What are the Confederate soldiers called in "Soldiers"?
(a) Secesh.
(b) Cajuns.
(c) Bootleggers.
(d) Hardies.
2. What word from the Introduction means unwilling to admit or accept something as truth?
(a) Stagnant.
(b) Impudent.
(c) Illiterate.
(d) Incredulous.
3. Who does the old black man say he is attempting to find in “Hunter”?
(a) His brother.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His aunt.
4. What word from the Introduction refers to something that recurs again and again?
(a) Arrogance.
(b) Repetitious.
(c) Deliverance.
(d) Impudence.
5. After how long does the fisherman abandon Jane in “Man’s Way”?
(a) After 8 months.
(b) After 3 years.
(c) After 6 months.
(d) After 1 year.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why are Jane and Ned denied passage on the ferry in “Shelter for a Night”?
2. What does Jane receive from Madam Gautier in “Man’s Way”?
3. How old is Pap described as in the Introduction?
4. Whose inspiration has led Ned to the decision to open a school to meet the educational needs of local blacks in “Professor Douglass”?
5. What impasse have Jane and Ned reached at the end of “Massacre”?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is symbolized through Jane's actions in "Man's Way"?
2. How does the narrator describe his relationship with Miss Jane Pittman in the Introduction?
3. From what narrative point of view is The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman related?
4. How does Job's wife respond when he brings Ned and Jane home in “Rednecks and Scalawags”?
5. Why does Jane turn down the white woman's offer in "Heading South"?
6. What advice and assistance do Jane and Ned receive in “An Old Man”?
7. How is the theme of self-identification explored in the first chapters of Book 1?
8. What physical conflict involves Jane in "Heading North"? What brings about this conflict?
9. How does irony apply to Colonel Dye's re-purchase of the Bone Plantation?
10. How is the narrative of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman structured?
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