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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. When Uncle Bud offers to leave, who insists that he stay?
(a) Mama.
(b) Papa.
(c) Big Ma.
(d) Uncle Hammer.

2. 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 is afraid his sharecropper friends will find out and never trust him again.
(d) Papa doesn't need the help because he is expecting a monetary windfall.

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

4. What are Mr. Wheeler and John Moses trying to do?
(a) Form a union of sharecroppers.
(b) Form a union of land owners
(c) Arrange a strike against the landowners.
(d) Form a cooperative with all the sharecroppers so they will own the majority of the land.

5. Who is the oldest Logan child?
(a) Little Man.
(b) Stacey.
(c) Cassie.
(d) Christopher-John.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Jamison discredit Mrs.Barnett's testimony?

2. How did the Logan family come to own their land?

3. What wasn't Mrs. Barnett wearing the night her husband was killed?

4. Why don't they think TJ will have a fair trial?

5. What happens to Cassie's photograph of Jeremy Sims?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the most important evidence against TJ Avery at his murder trial? Why?

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

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

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

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. Explain why there is more importance placed on the children working than getting an education.

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

10. Explain why Papa feels playing marbles leads to gambling.

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