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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What does Cassie inwardly confess about Mrs. Lee Annie?
(a) They all love her.
(b) They hate being forced to hug and kiss her.
(c) They would rather hide from her.
(d) They love her apple pie.

4. What did Joe say about Uncle Hammer's new car?
(a) The yellow color is too bright.
(b) The yellow is a happy color.
(c) He liked the Packard more.
(d) The Packard was a nicer shade of yellow.

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

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

7. What is the argument concerning Russell's return to Indiana?
(a) He should take friends along to protect him so he doesn't get beaten by white bigots.
(b) He should not wear his uniform because he might be beaten by white bigots along the route he would travel.
(c) He should take the train and not walk because the train is safer for black soldiers.
(d) He should not return because black soldiers do not get treated as well as white soldiers.

8. What does Jeremy give Stacey and Cassie?
(a) A book he liked.
(b) A photograph of his family.
(c) His autograph.
(d) A photograph of himself.

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

10. What does Moe do when Joe Billy offers him a ride home from school?
(a) He asks if his friends can also have a ride.
(b) He accepts the ride.
(c) He ignores the other boy.
(d) He politely refuses.

11. Why does Moe Turner walk three hours every weekday?
(a) To earn extra money taking supplies to the farmers.
(b) He wants to stay in shape.
(c) To get an education and have a better life than his father.
(d) To get to and from his work so he can help his family.

12. Where is Mama teaching?
(a) In church.
(b) At home.
(c) Her neighbor's house.
(d) At the high school.

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

14. What decision does Papa Logan make that upsets his wife?
(a) He is going to sell some acreage to Mr. Granger.
(b) He is going to join the union.
(c) He is going back to work for the railroad.
(d) He is going to sell the farm.

15. On Sunday morning, what secret does Cassie have?
(a) She is going to visit Wordell in the woods.
(b) She is going to skip church.
(c) She has a secret crush on Son Boy.
(d) She has a secret game of marbles planned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Morrison do for the Logans?

2. What is the first lesson Mama teaches Mrs. Lee Annie about the constitution?

3. How did the Logan family come to own their land?

4. What are Mr. Wheeler and John Moses trying to do?

5. Why were Papa Logan and Mr. Morrison looking for Dynamite?

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