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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. How often is market day?

2. What does Cassie smell cooking for breakfast the day after Uncle Hammer arrives?

3. How many of Mr. Logan’s brothers are dead?

4. When did Jeremy start going to school?

5. Where did Stacey go last summer to get his papa?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Mr. Morrison fired from the railroad?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Cassie get in trouble at the Barnett Mercantile?

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 Big Ma look like?

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

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

When they get home Cassie is still upset that Big Ma didn’t defend her in Strawberry. What emotions was Big Ma feeling during the incident with the Simms? What did Big Ma fear might happen if they didn’t do what the Simms wanted? What were some other reasons that Big Ma didn’t defend Cassie?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout Chapter 5, Cassie experiences cruelty and injustice. What types of injustice does Cassie suffer? Why do these incidents bother Cassie so? What does Cassie learn about fairness in Chapter 5?

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