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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is sharecropping?
(a) Landowners rent out a piece of their land to farmers.
(b) The government pays farmers not to grow crops.
(c) The share of the crop the bank gets to repay loans they made to the farmers.
(d) Farmers share the crop they have grown that year.

2. What sustains life in this small southern town?
(a) Education.
(b) Church.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Water.

3. What does Cassie think when Papa tells her boys will want to start courting her soon?
(a) She has a crush on Jeremy Sims.
(b) She wants things to stay the same and be just friends with the boys.
(c) She can't wait until she begins dating.
(d) She has secretly been dating already.

4. After receiving a copy of the Mississippi constitution, what does Mrs. Lee Annie decide she wants to do?
(a) Visit the state capitol.
(b) Vote.
(c) Learn to read.
(d) Memorize the constitution.

5. How do the Logans refer to their grandmother?
(a) Big Ma.
(b) Big Mo.
(c) Grandmother Logan.
(d) Grandma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Stacey say white men use black women?

2. Why does Papa refuse Mr. Granger's offer?

3. What does Jeremy give Stacey and Cassie?

4. What does Suzella do to try to befriend Cassie?

5. What does the Mississippi constitution say about mixed-race marriages?

(see the answer key)

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