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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 is the stranger in the back of the church?
(a) Mama's nephew Bud.
(b) Big Ma's friend Jake Willis.
(c) Papa's cousin Bud.
(d) Mama's cousin Bud.

2. Why are the Logans upset about Joe Billy and Stuart talking to Jacey Peters?
(a) They are afraid the boys will beat Jacey.
(b) The boys are sharecropper's sons and she is the daughter of a landowner.
(c) She is white and they are black.
(d) They are white and she is black.

3. How large is the Logan farm?
(a) 400 acres.
(b) 300 acres.
(c) 200 acres.
(d) 500 acres.

4. Who set the fire on the night TJ Avery was nearly lynched?
(a) Stacey Logan.
(b) Papa Logan.
(c) Cassie Logan.
(d) TJ Avery.

5. Why were Papa Logan and Mr. Morrison looking for Dynamite?
(a) They were going use it to blow up Mr. Granger's barn.
(b) They were going to have him butchered so they would have enough meat.
(c) Because he is a prized bull and he is missing.
(d) They were hoping to sell their bull to help pay their taxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Joe at the end of Chapter One?

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

3. Why is Jeremy Sims nervous around the Logan children?

4. Who does Mr. Farnsworth say beat him up?

5. What explanation does Stacey give for Jeremy Sims making them leave?

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. Explain whether you feel Mrs. Barnett is, or is not, a credible witness.

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

6. Explain why Mama begs Papa not to return to the railroad.

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

8. Why is it more dangerous for Russell to wear a military uniform when he travels back to Indiana than to wear his civilian clothes?

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

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

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