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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Mr. Wheeler and John Moses trying to do?
(a) Form a union of sharecroppers.
(b) Form a union of land owners
(c) Form a cooperative with all the sharecroppers so they will own the majority of the land.
(d) Arrange a strike against the landowners.

2. Why doesn't Papa and Uncle Hammer continue searching for Stacey?
(a) He tells Mama to search for a while.
(b) They are waiting to hear from the rest of the searchers.
(c) They have no leads.
(d) They need to rest.

3. Who do Mama and Big Ma think will give Mrs. Lee Annie trouble if she goes through with her plans?
(a) Mr. Lee.
(b) The Sheriff.
(c) Mr. Peck.
(d) Mr. Granger.

4. What does Stacey say would happen to a black person who got caught using the courthouse restrooms or fountain?
(a) They would have to clean the toilets.
(b) They would get in a lot of trouble.
(c) The white folks would chase them home.
(d) The Sheriff would arrest them.

5. What does Cassie ask Stacey when she finds the sweet gum tree?
(a) She asks him to cut gum out of the tree for everyone.
(b) She asks him to cut some gum out of the tree for Suzella.
(c) She asks him to cut some gum out of the tree for her to chew.
(d) She asks him to let her borrow his knife to cut some gum out of the tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is driving the bright yellow Ford?

2. While the jury deliberates, who sees Cassie and her brothers and reprimands them?

3. What does Stacey give Cassie before he leaves home?

4. When Russell and Dube go to the meeting, what do they witness the "night men" doing?

5. Mrs. Barnett says the three men were all the same:

(see the answer key)

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