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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only reason why TJ Avery was not lynched after he was caught?
(a) There was a fire on the Logan property.
(b) The town wanted a fair trial.
(c) People were no longer lynched.
(d) RW & Melvin Simms said he didn't do it.

2. What does Cousin Bud say after Uncle Hammer berates him?
(a) He says Uncle Hammer is the fool.
(b) He should never have told them his secret.
(c) He says that Uncle Hammer is right.
(d) He should never have dated a women from New York.

3. What did Joe say about Uncle Hammer's new car?
(a) He liked the Packard more.
(b) The yellow is a happy color.
(c) The yellow color is too bright.
(d) The Packard was a nicer shade of yellow.

4. What happens when Cassie takes a drink from the courthouse fountain while her brothers use the restrooms?
(a) Jeremy Sims grabs her and the boys and makes them leave.
(b) Jeremy Sims tells the sheriff they are there.
(c) The white folks inside look at them with disgust.
(d) The sheriff chases them out of the building.

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

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

7. Why does Papa refuse Mr. Granger's offer?
(a) Papa is afraid his sharecropper friends will find out and never trust him again.
(b) Papa is very stubborn and refuses to accept help from anyone.
(c) Mr. Granger's name will be on the country records and he could then claim their land as his own.
(d) Papa doesn't need the help because he is expecting a monetary windfall.

8. What is sharecropping?
(a) Landowners rent out a piece of their land to farmers.
(b) Farmers share the crop they have grown that year.
(c) The government pays farmers not to grow crops.
(d) The share of the crop the bank gets to repay loans they made to the farmers.

9. Mrs. Barnett says the three men were all the same:
(a) Age.
(b) Build.
(c) Height.
(d) Weight.

10. Although TJ doesn't say anything as he is led from the courthouse, what does he do?
(a) He smiles.
(b) He struggles with his guards.
(c) He cries.
(d) He spits on the white guards.

11. Who offers milk to the young man?
(a) Stacey Logan.
(b) Mrs. Lee Annie Lees.
(c) Cassie Logan.
(d) PaPa Logan.

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

13. What does Mrs. Lee Annie announce in April?
(a) It is officially spring.
(b) She wants to run for office.
(c) All blacks should vote so they are treated better.
(d) She wants to vote like her father did.

14. What does Mr. Morrison do for the Logans?
(a) He is their guest.
(b) He babysits the children when the parents go out.
(c) He is their driver.
(d) He is a farm hand.

15. Why are the Logans upset about Joe Billy and Stuart talking to Jacey Peters?
(a) She is white and they are black.
(b) They are afraid the boys will beat Jacey.
(c) The boys are sharecropper's sons and she is the daughter of a landowner.
(d) They are white and she is black.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cassie think when Papa tells her boys will want to start courting her soon?

2. At the trial, what does Mrs. Jim Lee Barnett say she and her husband found when they came downstairs the night her husband was murdered?

3. Who is in jail, accused of killing Mr. Barnett?

4. How does Stacey explain Uncle Hammer's anger about the Jacey Peters incident to Cassie?

5. What do most of the people think of Uncle Hammer's new car when they see it at church on Sunday?

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