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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. Who does Big Ma go to see after the market?

2. When did Cassie’s Grandpa first purchase land?

3. What color is Mr. Granger’s car?

4. How much older is Uncle Hammer than Mr. Logan?

5. Who is Big Ma?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to John Henry Berry and his family?

2. Why does Big Ma go to Strawberry the second Saturday of every month?

3. What does Big Ma look like?

4. What is the white school and grounds like?

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

6. When do the black children attend school and why?

7. Why doesn’t Mrs. Logan want her children at the Wallace store?

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

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

10. Why don’t the Logan children like wearing the rain gear their mother provides?

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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