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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. Who owns the beat up Ford truck that was parked outside the Barnett's store the night of the murder?
(a) TJ Avery.
(b) Melvin Sims.
(c) RW Sims.
(d) Mr. Macabee.

2. What does Mr. Morrison do for the Logans?
(a) He is their driver.
(b) He is their guest.
(c) He is a farm hand.
(d) He babysits the children when the parents go out.

3. What does Papa reveal to Cassie about his grandfather?
(a) His grandfather hated blacks and wouldn't touch a white woman.
(b) His father fell in love with a white woman but couldn't marrry her.
(c) His grandfather married a white woman and she abandoned him with their children.
(d) His grandfather was a slave owner and owned his grandmother.

4. After receiving a copy of the Mississippi constitution, what does Mrs. Lee Annie decide she wants to do?
(a) Visit the state capitol.
(b) Memorize the constitution.
(c) Vote.
(d) Learn to read.

5. How did the Logan family come to own their land?
(a) Their ancesters staked a claim on the land when they came to America.
(b) Their great, great, great grandfather was a furniture maker and earned enough to buy the land.
(c) Their grandfather won the land from Mr. Granger in a poker game.
(d) Their grandfather saved enough to purchase half the land, and then took a loan to buy the rest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is driving the bright yellow Ford?

2. What happens to TJ Avery's appeal for a new trial?

3. What does the county agent, Mr. Farnsworth, ask the Logans to do?

4. On the day of the trial, who does Stacey meet at the crossroad?

5. Why is Mr. Jamison the victim of vandalism and threats?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What revelation does Papa have when he describes Uncle Hammer's reaction to finding Jeremy Sim's photograph?

3. List the evidence that should have created a reasonable doubt about TJ's guilt in the minds of the jury.

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

5. What is the symbolism of Uncle Hammer's vehicle?

6. 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?

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. Describe what happens when Cassie takes her younger brothers into the courthouse.

9. When Papa Logan is asked to join the union he says he wants to think about it. Describe some of the pros and cons he must need to consider.

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

(see the answer keys)

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