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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the boys tell them about the job at the plantation?
(a) It was brutally hard work.
(b) It was hard work, but it paid well.
(c) The job paid so poorly, they couldn't pay their hotel bill so they ran away.
(d) The job was good, but the conditions were deplorable.

2. What does Suzella do to try to befriend Cassie?
(a) She offers to do Cassie's hair.
(b) She offers to let Cassie borrow some of her city dresses.
(c) She offers to take Cassie swimming.
(d) She pulls jiggers out of Cassie's feet.

3. What do the younger brothers tell Stacey and Cassie about their new house guest, Suzella?
(a) She is beautiful.
(b) She is white.
(c) She is taking Cassie's room.
(d) She is much older.

4. What does Cassie ask Suzella that gets them off on the wrong foot?
(a) What is it like to be "colored" and have a white mother?
(b) What is it like to be bi-racial?
(c) What is it like to be white and have a "colored" father?
(d) What is it like to live up north?

5. What happens on the way to saying good-bye to Mrs. Lee Annie?
(a) Stuart, Joe Billy and Pierceson run them off the road.
(b) Stuart and Joe Billy ask them to pull over.
(c) Stuart, Joe Billy and Pierceson ask them to pull over.
(d) Stuart and Pierceson block the road so they have to stop.

6. What happens after Miss Crocker breaks up the fight and takes Cassie to a classroom?
(a) Cassie runs into the woods.
(b) Miss Crocker gives Cassie detention.
(c) Cassie fights with Suzella.
(d) Suzella takes Cassie for a walk in the woods.

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

8. What does the Stokesville Sheriff say about the two boys he is holding?
(a) They are cleared of any crime.
(b) They can't be moved.
(c) They are in the hospital.
(d) They must remain for trial.

9. Who accuses Dube Cross of helping with the union?
(a) Suzella.
(b) Mr. Wheeler.
(c) Stuart.
(d) Mr. Cross.

10. What does Big Ma tell Cassie when she complains about Suzella?
(a) That she dislikes Suzella because she is white and she is jealous.
(b) That she should be more like Suzella.
(c) That she better get used to having Suzella around because she's going to stay forever.
(d) That Suzella is supposed to be like a sister to her.

11. Why wouldn't the plantation owner pay the boys when they asked to leave?
(a) He said they had a contract and hadn't lived up to their end of it.
(b) He told the boys he would pay them if they came back after the season was over.
(c) He said they still owed money for the things they bought on credit.
(d) He said they had to stay to the end of the season or go to jail.

12. What happens when Jake Willis offers a gift to Suzella?
(a) Papa says Jake is too old for such a young girl.
(b) Papa refuses the gift.
(c) Papa says Suzella is too young to be courted.
(d) All of the answers are correct.

13. How does Papa describe their family without Stacey?
(a) The family will heal and eventually go on without Stacey.
(b) The family will divide without Stacey.
(c) He and Mama will divorce and the family will be split apart.
(d) The family is a body, and without Stacey they are no longer complete.

14. What does Stacey give Cassie before he leaves home?
(a) His promise to spend more time with her.
(b) A good-bye note.
(c) His share of the cotton money.
(d) His knife.

15. Why did Wordell kill the cat?
(a) The cat killed the bird he was nursing.
(b) He hates cats.
(c) The cat had rabies.
(d) He didn't kill the cat - the dog did.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cassie overhear when Papa leaves his bedroom?

2. What happens to Cassie during canning season?

3. Who accompanies Mrs. Lee Annie into the courthouse?

4. How does Mr. Granger convince the crowd that the union is a bad idea?

5. Why does Cassie accuse Suzella of disliking "colored" people?

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