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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 does Reverend Gabson say the boys were talking about?
(a) Skipping school the next day.
(b) Breaking into the Barnett's store.
(c) Getting an axe.
(d) A white handled pistol.

2. Where does the Logan family and Mr. Morrison meet each night after dinner?
(a) In Mama and Papa's room.
(b) In the library to talk and do homework.
(c) On the front porch.
(d) Around the kitchen table for dessert.

3. Who does Mr. Farnsworth say beat him up?
(a) White men.
(b) Papa and Uncle Hammer.
(c) Black men.
(d) Strangers.

4. When Uncle Bud offers to leave, who insists that he stay?
(a) Mama.
(b) Uncle Hammer.
(c) Papa.
(d) Big Ma.

5. While the jury deliberates, who sees Cassie and her brothers and reprimands them?
(a) Mama Logan.
(b) Papa Logan.
(c) Joe.
(d) Mrs. Jamison.

Short Answer Questions

1. On Sunday morning, what secret does Cassie have?

2. When the Logan children and their friends are walking to school, why must they listen for the white school bus?

3. Why is Mama no longer a teacher?

4. Who was Mr. Barnett?

5. What wasn't Mrs. Barnett wearing the night her husband was killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why you think the Logan children run and hide after they get Mr. Farnsworth's help.

2. What is the most important evidence against TJ Avery at his murder trial? Why?

3. What is the reason the sharecroppers and day workers want a union, especially an integrated union?

4. What do you feel is happening to members of the Logan family because of the upcoming trial of TJ Avery?

5. Describe what happens when Cassie takes her younger brothers into the courthouse.

6. List the evidence that should have created a reasonable doubt about TJ's guilt in the minds of the jury.

7. Describe the different approaches of the prosecuting attorney and defense attorney as they question Mrs. Barnett at TJ Avery's trial.

8. Based on what you have learned up to Chapter 6, what problems would you say Cousin Bud faces because he married a white woman?

9. Analyze the reaction of finding Doris Ann hanging from a rope, in spite of the obvious fact that Wordell was the reason she did not die.

10. What reasons does Stacey give at the end of Chapter 2 for what happened to Cassie and her brothers at the courthouse?

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