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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 sits outside her window and sings.
(d) He cries while waiting for her to get well.

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

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

4. What does Cassie want to do when she hears Mrs. Lee Annie wants to register to vote?
(a) She also wants to register to vote.
(b) She wants to go along and watch.
(c) She wants to talk to Wordell about it.
(d) She wants to talk her out of it.

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

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

7. 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 must babysit her younger brothers while everyone is in Strawberry.
(c) That she may go along to Mr. Jamison's office to wait for information on Stacey.
(d) That she may watch Mrs. Lee Annie register to vote through a window of the courthouse.

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

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

10. How does Mama react to Papa's decision not to search for Stacey?
(a) She threatens to leave Papa.
(b) She insists if he won't go, she will.
(c) She is angry and won't talk to him.
(d) She threatens to take the children conduct her own search.

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

12. When Russell and Dube go to the meeting, what do they witness the "night men" doing?
(a) Beating all the black farmers at the meeting.
(b) Burning down the Wheeler house.
(c) Joining the meeting.
(d) Burning down the Wheeler barn.

13. Stacey is still determined to get a job, but promises to wait for what?
(a) To talk to his father when he returns home for the revival.
(b) Until he can convince his mother it is in the best interest of the family.
(c) Until he can find a job closer to home.
(d) Until he can come up with a good cover story.

14. The Logans begin their search at the Turner farm. What do they learn when they get there?
(a) Stacey and Moe went to the construction site of the new hospital for work.
(b) Stacey has been hiding in the Turner's barn.
(c) Moe Turner is also missing.
(d) Moe Turner tells them he hasn't seen Stacey.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is hit when someone throws a bottle?

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

3. What does Cassie see Russell and Suzella do?

4. What happens during Cassie's illness?

5. What does Uncle Hammer decide to do?

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