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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who offers milk to the young man?
(a) PaPa Logan.
(b) Stacey Logan.
(c) Cassie Logan.
(d) Mrs. Lee Annie Lees.

3. Who returns home wearing an Army uniform?
(a) Dube.
(b) Wordell.
(c) Don Lee.
(d) Russell.

4. Who is driving the bright yellow Ford?
(a) Uncle Hammer.
(b) Uncle Dube.
(c) Cousin Wiggins.
(d) Mr. Hammer.

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

6. After TJ is found guilty and led from the courthouse, who tries to talk to him?
(a) Stacey and Cassie.
(b) His mother and father.
(c) The Logan children.
(d) Mr. Jamison.

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

8. 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.

9. What does Mrs. Lee Annie announce in April?
(a) All blacks should vote so they are treated better.
(b) She wants to run for office.
(c) It is officially spring.
(d) She wants to vote like her father did.

10. What happens to Cassie's photograph of Jeremy Sims?
(a) Uncle Hammer throws it in the fire.
(b) Papa tears it up.
(c) Jeremy takes it back.
(d) Cassie loses it.

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

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

13. What is Papa's other job?
(a) Helping build the new hospital.
(b) Working on Mr. Granger's farm.
(c) Teaching at the high school.
(d) Working for the railroad.

14. Why is Mr. Jamison the victim of vandalism and threats?
(a) Because he is an outsider.
(b) Because no one likes a black lawyer.
(c) Because he is a white lawyer representing a black man.
(d) Because the black community hates him.

15. As Mr. Jamison questions several people about the night of Mr. Barnett's death, the testimonies offered also make the actions of which two other people look suspicious?
(a) RW and Melvin Sims.
(b) Jeremy and RW Sims.
(c) Mr. Macabee and Clyde Persons.
(d) Stacy Logan and Melvin Sims.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mr. Farnsworth say beat him up?

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

3. Who is the stranger in the back of the church?

4. What does Papa say when Uncle Hammer asks him about his other job?

5. Why does Moe Turner walk three hours every weekday?

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