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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Papa do when he hears the news?
(a) He waits to hear more.
(b) He begins a new search.
(c) He goes to find out more.
(d) He tells the Sheriff.

2. What news does Mr. Jamison bring to the family?
(a) He's talked to a cane recruiter who remembers Stacey.
(b) Stacey has been found.
(c) A cane recruiter said Stacey and Moe quit working the cane fields.
(d) Information on a cane recruiter.

3. Why does Cassie accuse Suzella of disliking "colored" people?
(a) Because Suzella has told everyone she is white.
(b) Because Suzella told her she hates her.
(c) Because Suzella's skin is lighter.
(d) Because Suzella tried to pass herself off as white to Stuart.

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

5. What does Cassie do when she sees her brother Stacey is changing?
(a) She listens to his phone conversations.
(b) She tells her mother he is being mean.
(c) She follows him around.
(d) She gets angry because he ignores her.

6. Who have the children been spending a lot of time with since Stacey left?
(a) Cassie.
(b) Mrs. Lee Annie.
(c) Wordell.
(d) Joe.

7. From where does Suzella get lessons?
(a) From her mother.
(b) From the Mississippi school system.
(c) From New York.
(d) From Mama.

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

9. What happens to Cassie during canning season?
(a) She can't help because she misses Stacey so much.
(b) She learns how to do the canning.
(c) She gets sick with scarlet fever.
(d) She burns herself.

10. What does Sheriff Dobbs and Mr. Peck tell the Turners they must do?
(a) They must get another cow.
(b) They must not plant any cotton next year.
(c) They must sell some of their crop to pay taxes.
(d) The Turners must tear up a portion of their cotton crop.

11. How does Mr. Granger convince the crowd that the union is a bad idea?
(a) He convinces the crowd the all black union will create an unbalance for the whites in the community.
(b) He claims the black union will lead to integration and that will, in turn, lead to mixed race marriages.
(c) He tellsw them that because it is interracial, it will lead to mixed race marriages and integrated schools.
(d) He doesn't think it's a bad idea, he supports the union.

12. What does the Mississippi constitution say about mixed-race marriages?
(a) It says that mixed race marriages are okay as long as the man is white and he owns the black woman.
(b) It says it is okay for any two people to marry, regardless of their race.
(c) It say that two different races cannot be legally married.
(d) It says that mixed race marriage can only be between a black man and white woman.

13. Stacey tell Moe he secretly likes which of the following?
(a) A white girl.
(b) A girl from Strawberry.
(c) Jacey Peters.
(d) Suzella.

14. At church, it is discovered that Jacey Peters is pregnant. Who is rumored to be the father?
(a) Stacey.
(b) Moe.
(c) Stuart.
(d) Joe Billy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cassie remember Mrs. Lee Annie telling her about Wordell?

2. What does Stacey's note tell the family?

3. Why do the other farmers have to do what the Turners did to their crop?

4. Why does Russell call Mrs. Ellis, Mama and Cassie out of the courtroom while Mrs. Lee Annie takes her test?

5. Why do they cancel the union meetings?

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