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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Mr. Jamison questions several people about the night of Mr. Barnett's death, the testimonies offered also make the actions of which two other people look suspicious?
(a) Jeremy and RW Sims.
(b) Stacy Logan and Melvin Sims.
(c) RW and Melvin Sims.
(d) Mr. Macabee and Clyde Persons.

2. Who is in jail, accused of killing Mr. Barnett?
(a) RW & Melvin Simms.
(b) Willie & Maynard Wiggins.
(c) TJ Avery.
(d) Mrs. Barnett.

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

4. What does Papa say when Uncle Hammer asks him about his other job?
(a) He might work on the hospital construction job instead.
(b) He might take Stacey along this year.
(c) He might not go this year.
(d) He aks Uncle Hammer to join him this year.

5. What sustains life in this small southern town?
(a) Church.
(b) Water.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what condition do the children find Mr. Farnsworth?

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

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

4. From where do they all watch the trial?

5. What does Cassie inwardly confess about Mrs. Lee Annie?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Papa drops out of the government program, why does he refuse Mr. Granger's offer to pay the added taxes he will now owe?

2. How would you analyze Jeremy Sims' actions in the story?

3. How would you describe TJ's lawyer, Mr. Jamison?

4. What do you feel is happening to members of the Logan family because of the upcoming trial of TJ Avery?

5. Based on what you have learned up to Chapter 6, what problems would you say Cousin Bud faces because he married a white woman?

6. Analyze the reason Mama doesn't want Stacey to work the whitewashing job.

7. Describe the reason Cassie defies her father about playing marbles.

8. Identify the reasons Stacey Logan offers to allow Dube Cross to milk their cow to get milk for his siblings rather than just giving him some of their extra milk.

9. Summarize why a sharecropper can never earn enough money to buy his land.

10. What is the reason the sharecroppers and day workers want a union, especially an integrated union?

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