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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. After their day at the market, what do Stacey and Cassie find in the barn?

2. In Chapter 3, after the children get covered in mud because of the Jefferson Davis bus, where does Stacey want to meet?

3. What do the children climb to pick cotton?

4. Into what does Big Ma put the cotton that she picks?

5. What color is the upholstery in Uncle Hammer’s car?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. Why does T.J. go with Big Ma to Strawberry in Chapter 5?

6. Why does Stacey get whipped at school in Chapter 4?

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

8. What is the black school and grounds like?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

For Christmas, Stacey and Cassie receive books written by Alexandre Dumas. Why did Mr. Logan choose those books? What do the books represent to Mr. Logan? To Mrs. Logan? To the children? What do the books symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

Mrs. Logan was fired from her teaching job. On the surface, what appeared to be reasons why the members of the school board fired her? What underlying reasons might have contributed to her losing her job? Was T.J. totally responsible for the board’s investigation?

Essay Topic 3

Mr. Logan believes that forgiveness and forgetting are two separate things. Does Mr. Logan believe that someone can forgive, but not forget? Why does Mr. Logan have to forget things, but yet, never forgive? What advice does he give Cassie about forgiving and forgetting?

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