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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't PaPa want his children to play marbles?
(a) It is time for dinner.
(b) He considers it to be gambling.
(c) He is afraid someone would fall on them.
(d) He wants them to do their chores.

2. How does Mr. Jamison discredit Mrs.Barnett's testimony?
(a) He explains TJ's fingerprints were not on the white handled pistol.
(b) He shows that TJ is shorter than she says the men were and uses a black stocking to show how it can make a white man appear to be black.
(c) He puts a black stocking on the hand of RW Sims.
(d) He makes her take off her glasses and pick out three men who are the height of her husband's killers.

3. Who is the stranger in the back of the church?
(a) Mama's nephew Bud.
(b) Papa's cousin Bud.
(c) Big Ma's friend Jake Willis.
(d) Mama's cousin Bud.

4. Who set the fire on the night TJ Avery was nearly lynched?
(a) Cassie Logan.
(b) Stacey Logan.
(c) TJ Avery.
(d) Papa Logan.

5. How does Uncle Hammer feel about Bud's announcement?
(a) He is angry and calls Cousin Bud a fool.
(b) He laughs at Cousin Bud.
(c) He calls Cousin Bud a traitor to blacks.
(d) He threatens Cousin Bud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the first Union meeting held?

2. What does Jeremy give Stacey and Cassie?

3. What does Mama tell Cassie when she wakes her up the day they are going to Strawberry?

4. What does Stacey's note tell the family?

5. After TJ is found guilty and led from the courthouse, who tries to talk to him?

(see the answer key)

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