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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Mr. Farnsworth say beat him up?
2. What is sharecropping?
3. What does Moe do when Joe Billy offers him a ride home from school?
4. What does Cassie think when Papa tells her boys will want to start courting her soon?
5. Who was Mr. Barnett?
Short Essay Questions
1. Summarize why a sharecropper can never earn enough money to buy his land.
2. What is the symbolism of Uncle Hammer's vehicle?
3. What reasons does Stacey give at the end of Chapter 2 for what happened to Cassie and her brothers at the courthouse?
4. What revelation does Papa have when he describes Uncle Hammer's reaction to finding Jeremy Sim's photograph?
5. Explain why you think the Logan children run and hide after they get Mr. Farnsworth's help.
6. List the evidence that should have created a reasonable doubt about TJ's guilt in the minds of the jury.
7. Explain why there is more importance placed on the children working than getting an education.
8. 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.
9. Describe the reason Cassie defies her father about playing marbles.
10. What is the reason the sharecroppers and day workers want a union, especially an integrated union?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay describing the relationship Mr. Jamison has with the Logan family. Why was he different than most of the other white people?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about the unfair treatment of the sharecroppers and day workers in the novel. The following questions must be answered: In what ways were the sharecroppers and day workers mistreated? Who mistreated them? Why were they mistreated?
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 7, Cassie and her father have a long heart-to-heart talk about the differences between the black people and the white people. He comments that he is praying that things will change in Cassie's lifetime. Write an essay describing what the two discussed. If Cassie were alive today, would many of the things they discussed have changed?
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