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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After receiving a copy of the Mississippi constitution, what does Mrs. Lee Annie decide she wants to do?
(a) Visit the state capitol.
(b) Memorize the constitution.
(c) Learn to read.
(d) Vote.

2. Where is Joe at the end of Chapter One?
(a) He is arrested for attempted murder.
(b) He is chased into the woods.
(c) He follows Wordell into the woods.
(d) They send out a search party.

3. Who sneaks a ride to the trial with Joe and Wordell?
(a) Stacey, Moe and Clarence.
(b) Cassie, Christopher-John and Little Man.
(c) The entire Logan family.
(d) Mama and Papa Logan.

4. Why does Stacey say white men use black women?
(a) Because he is jealous of white men.
(b) Because white men are all trouble-makers.
(c) Because white men do not respect black women.
(d) Because you can't trust a white man.

5. What happens to Cassie's photograph of Jeremy Sims?
(a) Papa tears it up.
(b) Uncle Hammer throws it in the fire.
(c) Jeremy takes it back.
(d) Cassie loses it.

6. From where do they all watch the trial?
(a) From the courthouse hallway.
(b) From the back of the wagon.
(c) From outside the courthouse.
(d) From the back row of the courtroom.

7. Where is Mama teaching?
(a) In church.
(b) At home.
(c) Her neighbor's house.
(d) At the high school.

8. What surrounds the town?
(a) Lovely gardens.
(b) The woods.
(c) Farmland.
(d) The road to Strawberry.

9. On the day of the trial, who does Stacey meet at the crossroad?
(a) Wardell and Clarence.
(b) Joe and Moe.
(c) Moe and Clarence.
(d) Cassie and the boys.

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

11. What decision does Papa Logan make that upsets his wife?
(a) He is going to sell some acreage to Mr. Granger.
(b) He is going to join the union.
(c) He is going to sell the farm.
(d) He is going back to work for the railroad.

12. What happens when Mama refuses to let Stacey take the job he was offered in Chapter 7?
(a) Mama washes his mouth out with soap.
(b) Stacey says he will take it anyway.
(c) Mama gives in to him.
(d) Stacey speaks disrespectfully to her and then runs off.

13. Who is with Doris Ann when they find her hanging from the church bell rope?
(a) Mr. Ellis.
(b) Ella Lou Hicks.
(c) Wordell.
(d) Joe.

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

15. What secret does Cousin Bud reveal?
(a) He is getting a divorce.
(b) He is married to a white woman.
(c) He is going to marry a white woman.
(d) He has a daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Papa say when Uncle Hammer asks him about his other job?

2. Why does Moe Turner walk three hours every weekday?

3. Who was Mr. Barnett?

4. How did the Logan family come to own their land?

5. What does Mr. Granger offer to do for Papa?

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