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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. What happens to Cassie during canning season?

2. Why doesn't Papa and Uncle Hammer continue searching for Stacey?

3. What does Mama tell Cassie when she wakes her up the day they are going to Strawberry?

4. How long did they work before Stacey decided to go home?

5. When Russell and Dube go to the meeting, what do they witness the "night men" doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Cassie was sick with scarlet fever, Wordell played his harmonica for her each day. Discuss the reasons why you think he did this.

2. Describe what must Cassie be feeling as she watches the impact Stacey's running away has on her family?

3. What happens when Mrs. Lee Annie goes to the courthouse to register to vote?

4. What are the demands of the farmers who arrived in front of the courthouse?

5. Discuss what seems to happen between Cassie and Suzella after Cassie gets in trouble for losing her temper in school.

6. What information does Mr. Jamison have that causes Papa to again begin his search for Stacey?

7. What impact does the arrival of Suzella have on Cassie?

8. Describe what Stacey says about his experience after leaving home to work in the cane fields.

9. Up to this point in the story, what changes has Cassie observed around her, and why is she so determined to keep things the same?

10. News is expected that may pertain to Stacey on the same day Mrs. Lee Annie is to register to vote. Explain what the Logans do.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In an essay, describe what Suzella's life might have been like before she came to stay with the Logans and then discuss the ways in which her life changed when she came to live with the Logans. What changes took place within her during that time?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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