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

2. What is the consequence of Papa's decision to quit the government program?
(a) He will be able to stop paying high taxes.
(b) Nothing will happen.
(c) He will pay higher taxes.
(d) He will set a bad example to other farmers.

3. Why does Papa refuse Mr. Granger's offer?
(a) Mr. Granger's name will be on the country records and he could then claim their land as his own.
(b) Papa is very stubborn and refuses to accept help from anyone.
(c) Papa doesn't need the help because he is expecting a monetary windfall.
(d) Papa is afraid his sharecropper friends will find out and never trust him again.

4. What happens when Cassie takes a drink from the courthouse fountain while her brothers use the restrooms?
(a) Jeremy Sims grabs her and the boys and makes them leave.
(b) Jeremy Sims tells the sheriff they are there.
(c) The white folks inside look at them with disgust.
(d) The sheriff chases them out of the building.

5. 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) RW and Melvin Sims.
(b) Jeremy and RW Sims.
(c) Mr. Macabee and Clyde Persons.
(d) Stacy Logan and Melvin Sims.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jeremy give Stacey and Cassie?

2. Who joins Papa on the visit to the Page Ellis family and Mrs. Lee Annie Lees?

3. Who owns the beat up Ford truck that was parked outside the Barnett's store the night of the murder?

4. What does Mr. Morrison do for the Logans?

5. What does Mr. Granger offer to do for Papa?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you interpret the Logan children's decision to sneak to the trial of their friend?

2. Can you interpret Moe's reason for refusing a ride from his landowner's son despite the fact he must walk an hour and a half to and from school each day?

3. Explain why you think the Logan children run and hide after they get Mr. Farnsworth's help.

4. List reasons why Mama and Big Ma try to talk Mrs. Lee Annie out of voting.

5. Describe the different approaches of the prosecuting attorney and defense attorney as they question Mrs. Barnett at TJ Avery's trial.

6. Identify events in Chapter 2 that demonstrate why the blacks have no faith in the justice system.

7. Analyze the reaction of finding Doris Ann hanging from a rope, in spite of the obvious fact that Wordell was the reason she did not die.

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

9. How would you interpret Cousin Bud's reason for wanting his daughter to spend time with the Logan family?

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

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