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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 is Mrs. Logan’s first name?

2. In what year did the price of cotton drop?

3. What type of gun does Big Ma keep locked in a trunk under her bed?

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

5. What is the name of the mercantile the children go to while they wait for Big Ma after the market?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Cassie disappointed when she sees the new readers at school?

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

3. What is the black school and grounds like?

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

5. What does Big Ma look like?

6. What does Uncle Hammer do when he hears how Mr. Simms treated Cassie?

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

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

9. According to T.J., why did the night riders come around in Chapter 3?

10. What is the white school and grounds like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the 1930s, blacks are treated like second-class citizens. How does the author show how blacks are treated? In what ways are black children treated as inferior? How are adults treated like second-class citizens? What is different about living conditions for whites and blacks that shows that black people are not as important as whites? In what other ways are blacks of lesser rank than whites?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 3, Stacey concocts a plan to get revenge on the white bus drive and bus. Why did Stacey’s plan seem to be successful at first? What made Stacey think that his idea might not have been so good after all? Why do the Logan children regret their act of revenge?

Essay Topic 3

Most black families, including the Logans, grow cotton. Why is it so important for the Logans to grow cotton? What does cotton symbolize for the Logans? What benefits do the Logans gain from growing cotton? What do most black families gain from their cotton crops? How are the benefits the Logans gain from their cotton crop different from what other black gain from growing cotton?

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