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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 Hammer returns for Christmas, what does he do?
2. What does Stacey say about being home?
3. How does Mama react to Papa's decision not to search for Stacey?
4. What does the Mississippi constitution say about mixed-race marriages?
5. What happens when Mrs. Lee Annie tells the secretary at the courthouse she wants to register to vote?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of the song the family sings on Christmas?
2. In the final chapter, what does the Sheriff reveal about why he is letting Stacey and Moe go?
3. What happens when Mrs. Lee Annie goes to the courthouse to register to vote?
4. Why is Dube Cross in favor of the union?
5. 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?
6. How does the ending of the story relate the title, "Will the Circle be Unbroken?"?
7. Describe what must Cassie be feeling as she watches the impact Stacey's running away has on her family?
8. Why do you think Mrs. Lee Annie continues her pursuit of registering to vote in spite of the fact that her friends oppose the idea?
9. Describe what Stacey says about his experience after leaving home to work in the cane fields.
10. What information does Mr. Jamison have that causes Papa to again begin his search for Stacey?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay describing the boycott mentioned in the story and what happened to Mama and Papa Logan because of it.
Essay Topic 2
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."
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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