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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Papa's other job?
(a) Working for the railroad.
(b) Helping build the new hospital.
(c) Teaching at the high school.
(d) Working on Mr. Granger's farm.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. After TJ is found guilty and led from the courthouse, who tries to talk to him?
(a) Stacey and Cassie.
(b) The Logan children.
(c) His mother and father.
(d) Mr. Jamison.

6. What explanation does Stacey give for Jeremy Sims making them leave?
(a) Jeremy Sims is evil like his brothers.
(b) The water fountain and the restrooms inside the courthouse are for white folks.
(c) The boys went into the ladies' restroom by accident.
(d) They were supposed to wait in line and didn't.

7. What does Jeremy give Stacey and Cassie?
(a) A photograph of his family.
(b) His autograph.
(c) A photograph of himself.
(d) A book he liked.

8. Who is in jail, accused of killing Mr. Barnett?
(a) Mrs. Barnett.
(b) RW & Melvin Simms.
(c) TJ Avery.
(d) Willie & Maynard Wiggins.

9. Why were Papa Logan and Mr. Morrison looking for Dynamite?
(a) They were going to have him butchered so they would have enough meat.
(b) They were hoping to sell their bull to help pay their taxes.
(c) Because he is a prized bull and he is missing.
(d) They were going use it to blow up Mr. Granger's barn.

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

11. How does Mr. Jamison discredit Mrs.Barnett's testimony?
(a) He makes her take off her glasses and pick out three men who are the height of her husband's killers.
(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 explains TJ's fingerprints were not on the white handled pistol.

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

13. Who wants to find work so that he can buy milk for his siblings?
(a) Dube Cross.
(b) Maynard Wiggins.
(c) Little Man.
(d) Moe Turner.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the consequence of Papa's decision to quit the government program?

3. How large is the Logan farm?

4. From where do they all watch the trial?

5. Why doesn't PaPa want his children to play marbles?

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