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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Papa reveal to Cassie about his grandfather?
(a) His father fell in love with a white woman but couldn't marrry her.
(b) His grandfather married a white woman and she abandoned him with their children.
(c) His grandfather hated blacks and wouldn't touch a white woman.
(d) His grandfather was a slave owner and owned his grandmother.

3. What happens when Stacey and Little Willie try to get a job at the hospital construction site?
(a) Stacey is told he is too weak to do the work.
(b) They are both offered a job whitewashing for a week.
(c) They are both sent away and told not to come back.
(d) Stacey is offered a job whitewashing for a week.

4. Who lives in the Logan's shed?
(a) Big Ma.
(b) Mr. Jamison.
(c) Mr. Morrison.
(d) Wordell.

5. What does Cousin Bud say after Uncle Hammer berates him?
(a) He says that Uncle Hammer is right.
(b) He should never have dated a women from New York.
(c) He should never have told them his secret.
(d) He says Uncle Hammer is the fool.

6. How does Mr. Jamison discredit Mrs.Barnett's testimony?
(a) He explains TJ's fingerprints were not on the white handled pistol.
(b) He makes her take off her glasses and pick out three men who are the height of her husband's killers.
(c) 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.
(d) He puts a black stocking on the hand of RW Sims.

7. What does Papa say when Uncle Hammer asks him about his other job?
(a) He might not go this year.
(b) He might take Stacey along this year.
(c) He might work on the hospital construction job instead.
(d) He aks Uncle Hammer to join him this year.

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

9. What is the consequence of Papa's decision to quit the government program?
(a) He will pay higher taxes.
(b) He will set a bad example to other farmers.
(c) He will be able to stop paying high taxes.
(d) Nothing will happen.

10. Where is Joe at the end of Chapter One?
(a) He is chased into the woods.
(b) He follows Wordell into the woods.
(c) They send out a search party.
(d) He is arrested for attempted murder.

11. What are Mr. Wheeler and John Moses trying to do?
(a) Arrange a strike against the landowners.
(b) Form a union of sharecroppers.
(c) Form a cooperative with all the sharecroppers so they will own the majority of the land.
(d) Form a union of land owners

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

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

14. Who is the oldest Logan child?
(a) Cassie.
(b) Stacey.
(c) Christopher-John.
(d) Little Man.

15. 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. What explanation does Stacey give for Jeremy Sims making them leave?

2. What is the subject of the pastor's lecture to the congregation on that Sunday?

3. How do the Logans refer to their grandmother?

4. In what condition do the children find Mr. Farnsworth?

5. Who is in jail, accused of killing Mr. Barnett?

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