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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. When Uncle Bud offers to leave, who insists that he stay?

2. How do the Logans refer to their grandmother?

3. What does Cousin Bud say after Uncle Hammer berates him?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Analyze the reason Mama doesn't want Stacey to work the whitewashing job.

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. How would you analyze Jeremy Sims' actions in the story?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the story, Moe Turner expresses his opinion that a good education is the way out of sharecropping. In an essay, explain how the process of sharecropping worked. Where did it go wrong? Who had the power to solve the problem? How could they have solved the problem?

Essay Topic 2

Write a essay on the author of the story, Mildred A. Taylor. What other novels did she write? What series of novels did she write? Where did she get her inspiration? What kind of awards did she receive for her literary work?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that will answer the following questions: What was the "New Deal"? What were the Works Project Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps mentioned in the novel? What were these programs supposed to do?

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