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

2. What does Cassie inwardly confess about Mrs. Lee Annie?

3. After TJ is found guilty and led from the courthouse, who tries to talk to him?

4. Who is the stranger in the back of the church?

5. What is the consequence of Papa's decision to quit the government program?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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.

3. 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?

4. Describe TJ Avery's predicament in the story.

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

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

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

8. How would you interpret the Logan children's decision to sneak to the trial of their friend?

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

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 2

Write an essay about the "night men" that were referred to in the story. Who were they? What were their goals in the novel? Were they successful in meeting their goals?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that details the irony of the Bible verse Cassie quoted in Chapter 1 of the novel and her determination to win Son-Boy's prized blue/green marble. The verse reads as follows: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, or anything that is thy neighbor's."

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