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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Logan children and their friends are walking to school, why must they listen for the white school bus?
(a) Because they don't want the white children to see them and call them names.
(b) Because they are afraid if the bus stops they will be beaten by the white children on the bus.
(c) Because the bus driver likes to play chicken with them.
(d) Because they must go into the woods to keep from being splashed with muddy water.

2. How was Mr. Barnett killed?
(a) He was hit on the head with the blunt end of an axe.
(b) He fell down the stairs.
(c) He was beaten.
(d) He died trying to save his wife.

3. Who is with Doris Ann when they find her hanging from the church bell rope?
(a) Ella Lou Hicks.
(b) Joe.
(c) Mr. Ellis.
(d) Wordell.

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

5. What does Papa say about laws?
(a) Laws are outdated.
(b) Laws are fair to everyone.
(c) Laws are made for white people.
(d) Laws can be ignored if you don't like them.

6. What relationship does Mr. Granger have with Mrs. Lee Annie?
(a) He is her neighbor.
(b) He is the Mayor and he's afaid she'll run against him.
(c) He owns the land where she lives.
(d) He is secretly courting her.

7. Who joins Papa on the visit to the Page Ellis family and Mrs. Lee Annie Lees?
(a) Cassie, Christopher-John and Little Man.
(b) MaMa, Cassie, Stacey, Christopher-John and Little Man.
(c) Cassie, Stacey, Christopher-John and Little Man.
(d) Cassie and Stacey.

8. What does Mr. Granger offer to do for Papa?
(a) Buy the Logan farm.
(b) Pay Papa's taxes.
(c) Give Papa a loan.
(d) Bribe the county agent.

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

10. Mrs. Barnett says the three men were all the same:
(a) Weight.
(b) Height.
(c) Build.
(d) Age.

11. What day does Papa Logan take his children to visit the Page Ellis family and Mrs. Lee Annie Lees?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) There is no way to know.
(d) Friday.

12. How does Mr. Jamison discredit Mrs.Barnett's testimony?
(a) He makes her take off her glasses and pick out three men who are the height of her husband's killers.
(b) He puts a black stocking on the hand of RW Sims.
(c) He explains TJ's fingerprints were not on the white handled pistol.
(d) He shows that TJ is shorter than she says the men were and uses a black stocking to show how it can make a white man appear to be black.

13. On the day of the trial, who does Stacey meet at the crossroad?
(a) Cassie and the boys.
(b) Joe and Moe.
(c) Moe and Clarence.
(d) Wardell and Clarence.

14. Why is Jeremy Sims nervous around the Logan children?
(a) He's afraid of what they think of him since his brothers were responsible for TJ Avery's death.
(b) He is afraid they will beat him because he is the brother of RW and Melvin Sims.
(c) He is afraid his parents or other white folks will see him with the black childen.
(d) He is afraid the black children will call him a murderer.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Lee Annie announce in April?

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

4. Where is the first Union meeting held?

5. What happens to Cassie's photograph of Jeremy Sims?

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