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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the school day ends, how big is the spot where the Logan children dug in the road?
(a) 3 yards.
(b) 12 feet.
(c) 6 feet.
(d) 6 yards.

2. What was the name of Big Ma’s mother?
(a) Molly.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Sally.
(d) Abigail.

3. What is Uncle Hammer wearing at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Jeans and a flannel shirt.
(b) Overalls and long-sleeved shirt.
(c) Black suit and vest.
(d) Gray pin-striped suit and vest.

4. Where does Mr. Morrison sleep?
(a) Shed.
(b) In the house.
(c) Barn.
(d) Tenant shack.

5. To what market are the Logans going at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Strawberry.
(c) Tallahassee.
(d) Vicksburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom did Grandfather Logan buy his land?

2. Where were Big Ma’s parents born?

3. In Chapter 4, what does T.J. bring back to Mrs. Logan?

4. When did Cassie’s Grandpa make a second land purchase?

5. What time does Big Ma leave for the market?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Cassie disappointed when she gets to Strawberry?

2. What does Uncle Hammer look like?

3. Why does Big Ma wish they had more low cotton?

4. What does Mrs. Logan do when Miss Crocker tells her how Little Man and Cassie rejected their books?

5. What happens to the school bus in Chapter 3?

6. According to Mrs. Logan, why did Mr. Simms push Cassie?

7. How does Mrs. Logan get ready for church?

8. What does Big Ma tell Little Man when he keeps complaining because the black children don’t have a bust to take them to school?

9. What does T.J. admire at the Barnett Mercantile?

10. Why is there a man-made gap in the forest that the Logans own?

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