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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cassie ask Suzella that gets them off on the wrong foot?
(a) What is it like to be bi-racial?
(b) What is it like to be white and have a "colored" father?
(c) What is it like to be "colored" and have a white mother?
(d) What is it like to live up north?

2. From where do they all watch the trial?
(a) From the back of the wagon.
(b) From outside the courthouse.
(c) From the back row of the courtroom.
(d) From the courthouse hallway.

3. Why does Moe Turner walk three hours every weekday?
(a) To earn extra money taking supplies to the farmers.
(b) To get an education and have a better life than his father.
(c) To get to and from his work so he can help his family.
(d) He wants to stay in shape.

4. What happens to TJ Avery's appeal for a new trial?
(a) It is scheduled for a year later.
(b) It is denied.
(c) It is postponed.
(d) It is put on hold.

5. What happens when Cassie takes a drink from the courthouse fountain while her brothers use the restrooms?
(a) Jeremy Sims tells the sheriff they are there.
(b) The sheriff chases them out of the building.
(c) Jeremy Sims grabs her and the boys and makes them leave.
(d) The white folks inside look at them with disgust.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sneaks a ride to the trial with Joe and Wordell?

2. What does the county agent, Mr. Farnsworth, ask the Logans to do?

3. What does Little Man tell the others about Mr. Morrison while sitting on the river bank?

4. Who lives in the Logan's shed?

5. What does Cassie think when Papa tells her boys will want to start courting her soon?

(see the answer key)

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