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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 old was Jojo when he had an accident and peed himself at school?

2. What does Leonie put on her mother's altar?

3. Where is Michael after Leonie talks to her mom after the trip to the prison?

4. How did Pop paint the ceiling in the bedroom he shared with Mam?

5. What was the name of the prisoner who made Richie escape with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leonie tell Michael she wants to do after Mam dies?

2. What does Mam tell Jojo about dying?

3. Why does Jojo make himself a sandwich the first morning he and the others return from Parchman?

4. In Chapter 14, what does Leonie see and hear Michael do when she wakes?

5. How does Jojo describe life after his grandmother's death?

6. How sick does Leonie get after swallowing the meth, and how does Michael try to help her?

7. What does Mam want when Leonie goes to talk to her after getting home from the trip to Parchman?

8. Why did Pop quit smoking?

9. What work did Michael do at Parchman, and how did he feel about the work?

10. What does Mam tell Jojo about his mother in Chapter 11?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pop carries a gris-gris bag and gives one to Jojo. Leonie and Mam pray to Catholic saints and goddesses and believe in ghosts and superstitious practices. What is the role of superstition in the lives of characters?

Essay Topic 2

Pop, Richie, and others worked in the fields at Parchman and were punished severely for all infractions. Was the treatment they received while incarcerated considered inhumane?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view of Sing, Unburied, Sing? How does the way that three first-person narrators are used influence what readers know about events and characters? How does having following different characters help readers connect with and understand characters?

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