SparkNotes: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman: Quiz

Who records the story of Miss Jane Pittman?

(A) Herself

(B) A local school teacher

(C) Joe Pittman

(D) Ned Douglass

() Mary Hodges

What was Miss Jane Pittman's slavery name?

(A) Ticey

(B) Big Laura

(C) Sharmie

(D) Ceri

() Mary

What was her name after slavery before she married Joe Pittman?

(A) Jane Smith

(B) Jane Washington

(C) Jane Brown

(D) Jane Douglass

How did she get that name?

(A) She choose it herself

(B) A Union soldier gave it to her

(C) Her slave owners gave it to her before she left the plantation

(D) Her mother gave it to her

Where does Jane want to go when slavery ends?

(A) Ohio

(B) New York

(C) Her mother's plantation

(D) Canada

How does Jane end up traveling with Ned?

(A) He is her son

(B) He had no parents at the plantation and wanted to see Ohio.

(C) He is her brother

(D) His mother and baby sister were killed as they traveled

() He runs away from his family who want to stay at the plantation

Who does Jane not meet on her trek North?

(A) Patrollers

(B) A solitary black hunter

(C) A white female plantation owner returning home

(D) The Yankee soldier Mr. Brown who named her

Why does Jane decide to stay in Louisiana?

(A) Because Ned wants to

(B) Because she finds that Mr. Brown moved to Louisiana

(C) Because she finds her mother

(D) Because she gets a job at a plantation and is tired

What does Joe Pittman do for a living?

(A) He breaks horses

(B) He's a sharecropper

(C) He's a schoolteacher

(D) He's the plantation overseer

What does Miss Jane initially not want to tell Joe Pittman before they marry?

(A) That she is barren

(B) That she does not love him

(C) That she had a dream that he will die soon

(D) That she once had a baby that did not live

Where does Ned go when he flees the plantation?

(A) Kansas

(B) Oklahoma

(C) Ohio

(D) Texas

What does Jane do at the ranch where Joe Pittman breaks horses?

(A) Works in the fields

(B) Takes care of their cabin and his kids

(C) Runs a small school for the local black children

(D) Works in the Big House

Why does Jane go to see the "hoodoo" woman?

(A) Because she no longer wants to be barren

(B) Because she is worried about Ned

(C) Because she fears Joe's death

(D) Because she wants good fortune in her new home

Why does Ned return to Louisiana?

(A) Because he got a job in New Orleans

(B) Because he plans to study at the University

(C) To become a schoolteacher

(D) Because he has become a lawyer and wants to defend his people

Who shoots Ned?

(A) Robert Samson

(B) Jimmy Aaron

(C) Albert Cluveau

(D) Colonel Dye

What does Jane do to Albert Cluveau after the shooting?

(A) Spits on him

(B) Tells him that she will kill hom

(C) Tells him that he'll be screaming loudly when the Chariots of Hell come to his door

(D) Talks with him over a cup of coffee

Who is Tee Bob's half-brother?

(A) Joe Pittman

(B) Job

(C) Timmy

(D) Clamp Brown

With whom does Tee Bob fall in love?

(A) Jane Pittman

(B) Vivian Douglass

(C) Adeline Cluveau

(D) Mary Agnes Lefabre

Why does Tee Bob kill himself

(A) Because he killed a man and doesn't know what to do

(B) Because his half-brother Timmy was sent away

(C) Because his pure love for Mary Agnes Lefabre cannot survive in his society

(D) Because he has incestual thoughts about his sister

Who does Miss Jane Pittman think is the "One"?

(A) Ned Douglass

(B) Clamp Brown

(C) Tee Bob

(D) Jimmy Aaron

What does Robert Samson do with his plantation land after Tee Bob dies?

(A) Allows to the school that Ned Douglass built

(B) Lets his wife's brother Clarence run it

(C) Sharecrops most of it to the Cajuns and a few blacks

(D) Nothing, just keeps it as always

What becomes a major part of Miss Jane's life at the end of the book?

(A) Attending School

(B) Taking care of the children on the plantation

(C) Going to Church

(D) Visiting New Orleans