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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that Little Willie says he heard Moe talking about?
(a) Joining the army.
(b) Heading north to find work.
(c) Finding work in the cane fields.
(d) Going to get a job on the railroad.

2. Who was Mr. Barnett?
(a) A high school teacher.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) Mayor of Strawberry.
(d) A store owner.

3. Why do the other farmers have to do what the Turners did to their crop?
(a) They already spent their government check and can't give it back.
(b) Because they are at the whim of white government officials.
(c) They were supposed to plant corn instead of cotton.
(d) There was a miscalculation and they won't receive their government money if they don't tear out the required crop.

4. What wasn't Mrs. Barnett wearing the night her husband was killed?
(a) Her hearing aid.
(b) Her glasses.
(c) Her bathrobe and slippers.
(d) Her wig.

5. How did the Logan family come to own their land?
(a) Their grandfather saved enough to purchase half the land, and then took a loan to buy the rest.
(b) Their great, great, great grandfather was a furniture maker and earned enough to buy the land.
(c) Their ancesters staked a claim on the land when they came to America.
(d) Their grandfather won the land from Mr. Granger in a poker game.

Short Answer Questions

1. After receiving a copy of the Mississippi constitution, what does Mrs. Lee Annie decide she wants to do?

2. What does Papa reveal to Cassie about his grandfather?

3. When Papa cries, what does he say he is afraid of?

4. How does Papa describe their family without Stacey?

5. From where does Suzella get lessons?

(see the answer key)

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