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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Suzella enrolls in the Mississippi school system?
(a) She is tested.
(b) She is in Cassie's class.
(c) She is immediately skipped to grade 11 - 12.
(d) She is disliked because she is a city girl.

2. When Papa cries, what does he say he is afraid of?
(a) Stacey will never come home.
(b) They will lose the farm without Stacey's help.
(c) Something bad has happened to Stacey.
(d) Stacey may have turned to crime.

3. What does Mama tell Cassie when she wakes her up the day they are going to Strawberry?
(a) That she may go along to watch Mrs. Lee Annie register to vote, but she must not say anything.
(b) That she may watch Mrs. Lee Annie register to vote through a window of the courthouse.
(c) That she may go along to Mr. Jamison's office to wait for information on Stacey.
(d) That she must babysit her younger brothers while everyone is in Strawberry.

4. What do the three boys do to Cousin Bud?
(a) They make fun of him.
(b) They strip him.
(c) They beat him.
(d) They humiliate and threaten him.

5. What does Uncle Hammer decide to do?
(a) Return home.
(b) Stay with the family while Papa searches.
(c) Search alone.
(d) Leave his car with Papa.

6. After Cassie vents her anger about Suzella to Wordell, what does he say?
(a) Wordell says she is wrong to talk about her cousin that way.
(b) Wordell tells her she is jealous because she is no longer the only girl in the family.
(c) Wordell says nothing and continues playing his harmonica.
(d) Wordell says it is okay to feel that way, but she shouldn't talk about it.

7. Where do the boys have breakfast before heading home?
(a) A local restaurant.
(b) The Sheriff's home.
(c) With Aunt Mattie Jones.
(d) The Sheriff's office.

8. What does Wordell do while Cassie is sick?
(a) He plays his harmonica for her every day.
(b) He gets a job to help the Logan family.
(c) He cries while waiting for her to get well.
(d) He sits outside her window and sings.

9. How does Cassie feel about Suzella leaving?
(a) She secretly cheers the fact that her rival will leave.
(b) She is happy to get her room back.
(c) She secretly wants to go along so that she can see New York.
(d) She is saddened.

10. Why is Mr. Wheeler organizing a meeting?
(a) To discuss how Mr. Granger and Mr. Montier are taking advantage of the tax laws.
(b) To get all the black farmers to form a union.
(c) To get the farmers to help him build a new barn after his was burned.
(d) To discuss how Mr. Granger and Mr. Peck are taking advantage of the tax laws.

11. When Uncle Hammer returns for Christmas, what does he do?
(a) He cooks their traditional Christmas meal.
(b) He helps them decorate a Christmas tree.
(c) He makes hoghead sause and takes the children to chop down a Christmas tree.
(d) He helps the children search for the perfect Christmas tree and makes a traditional meal.

12. What does the Sheriff say about the way the landowners treat the cane workers?
(a) He disagrees with the way they treat the workers.
(b) He believes the cane workers need to form a union.
(c) He agrees that the cane workers are lazy.
(d) He thinks the landowners need to let the workers have more breaks.

13. Why does Cassie attack Mary Lou Wellever?
(a) Mary Lou won't tell where Stacey is.
(b) She doesn't like Mary Lou.
(c) Mary Lou says Stacey is probably dead.
(d) Mary Lou talks bad about Stacey.

14. What does Cousin Bud tell them when he arrives?
(a) He is going to divorce Suzella's mother and he wants his daughter to stay with the Logans.
(b) That he is taking Suzella back to New York because he and her mother are going to try to save their marriage.
(c) He is taking Suzella to New York so they can go to Time Square on New Year's Eve.
(d) That he and Suzella's mother are getting a divorce and Suzella is going back to New York to live with her mother.

15. What news does Mr. Jamison bring on New Year's Day?
(a) He is to receive information in the morning about some boys working on a plantation near Baton Rouge.
(b) A Buford Sheriff is looking for some boys from Baton Rouge who ran away.
(c) There is a statewide search for some boys who escaped a plantation in Buford.
(d) The Sheriff of Baton Rouge is looking for the parents of some boys who ran away from a plantation in Buford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sheriff Dobbs and Mr. Peck tell the Turners they must do?

2. What happens when Cassie sees Wordell running toward the crowd?

3. If the Logans have their best cotton crop ever, why are they still worried about paying taxes?

4. Why did Wordell kill the cat?

5. Who accuses Dube Cross of helping with the union?

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