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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 tells the Logan children that T.J. was responsible for getting their mother fired?

2. What does Big Ma do after Mr. Logan and Mr. Morrison go to get T.J. and Stacey?

3. How old is T.J.?

4. What is the most important thing that the Logans need to buy before the first cotton comes in?

5. How many townspeople help put out the fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cassie threaten Lillian Jean when the girl threatens to tell her father that Cassie beat her up?

2. In Chapter 9, why does Mr. Jamison come to talk to Mr. Logan?

3. Why doesn’t T.J. get hung in Chapter 11?

4. How do Mama and Big Ma prepare to fight the fire?

5. How does Jeremy say that R.W. and Melvin treat T.J.?

6. What do the children get for Christmas gifts?

7. What happened to T.J.?

8. What does Mr. Logan do when he hears about T.J. and that Stacey is still up in the woods?

9. What happened to Mr. Morrison’s family?

10. Why does Cassie think that Stacey feels responsible for T.J.?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When both Mr. and Mrs. Logan lose their outside jobs, the family struggles to make ends meet. Why is it so important for the family to have cash? How do they pull together to survive? How does Uncle Hammer help? Why does he help when he doesn’t even live on the land?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 1, there are obvious differences between the white school and the black school. Are the differences in the two schools strictly on the surface or do they run deeper? What are the most striking differences? What do the differences reveal about the relationship between blacks and whites during that time?

Essay Topic 3

Thunder and storms occur in the novel during times of conflict. How often does a thunderstorm occur during a time of crisis? What does thunder symbolize in the novel? Does thunder sometimes foreshadow events to come? What does the title of the novel mean?

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