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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Cassie accuse Suzella of disliking "colored" people?
(a) Because Suzella's skin is lighter.
(b) Because Suzella told her she hates her.
(c) Because Suzella tried to pass herself off as white to Stuart.
(d) Because Suzella has told everyone she is white.

2. What is it that Little Willie says he heard Moe talking about?
(a) Going to get a job on the railroad.
(b) Joining the army.
(c) Finding work in the cane fields.
(d) Heading north to find work.

3. What does Stacey say about being home?
(a) "Home is where family is."
(b) "Home is where the heart is."
(c) "It's the very best place to be."
(d) "There is no place like home."

4. What happens when they take Moe home?
(a) The Logans witness his reunion with his family.
(b) The Turners are angry with Moe for leaving.
(c) No one is home so they take Moe into the house and leave.
(d) Cassie stays to help take care of Moe.

5. What happens when Suzella enrolls in the Mississippi school system?
(a) She is immediately skipped to grade 11 - 12.
(b) She is in Cassie's class.
(c) She is tested.
(d) She is disliked because she is a city girl.

6. What does Cassie ask Suzella that gets them off on the wrong foot?
(a) What is it like to be "colored" and have a white mother?
(b) What is it like to be white and have a "colored" father?
(c) What is it like to be bi-racial?
(d) What is it like to live up north?

7. What news does Mr. Jamison bring to the family?
(a) Information on a cane recruiter.
(b) A cane recruiter said Stacey and Moe quit working the cane fields.
(c) Stacey has been found.
(d) He's talked to a cane recruiter who remembers Stacey.

8. Why wouldn't the plantation owner pay the boys when they asked to leave?
(a) He said they still owed money for the things they bought on credit.
(b) He said they had to stay to the end of the season or go to jail.
(c) He said they had a contract and hadn't lived up to their end of it.
(d) He told the boys he would pay them if they came back after the season was over.

9. Stacey tell Moe he secretly likes which of the following?
(a) A white girl.
(b) Jacey Peters.
(c) A girl from Strawberry.
(d) Suzella.

10. What happens when Jake Willis offers a gift to Suzella?
(a) All of the answers are correct.
(b) Papa says Suzella is too young to be courted.
(c) Papa says Jake is too old for such a young girl.
(d) Papa refuses the gift.

11. What does Cassie want to do when she hears Mrs. Lee Annie wants to register to vote?
(a) She wants to talk her out of it.
(b) She also wants to register to vote.
(c) She wants to go along and watch.
(d) She wants to talk to Wordell about it.

12. As the Logans plan to drive to Stokeville to get information about Stacey, what happens to Mrs. Lee Annie and the Ellis family?
(a) Mr. Granger tells them they must vacate his land by the next morning.
(b) Mrs. Lee Annie and the Ellis's decide to leave Mr. Granger's land because he is so unfair to them.
(c) Mrs. Lee Annie and the Ellis's have to hide until the election, then they will all vote.
(d) Mrs. Lee Annie and the Ellis's wish the Logans luck finding Stacey.

13. Who accompanies Mrs. Lee Annie into the courthouse?
(a) Wordell, Cassie and Mama
(b) Big Ma, Mama and Cassie
(c) Papa and Mama Logan and Cassie
(d) Mama, Mrs. Ellis and Cassie

14. Why do the other farmers have to do what the Turners did to their crop?
(a) They already spent their government check and can't give it back.
(b) Because they are at the whim of white government officials.
(c) There was a miscalculation and they won't receive their government money if they don't tear out the required crop.
(d) They were supposed to plant corn instead of cotton.

15. What happens to Cassie during canning season?
(a) She burns herself.
(b) She can't help because she misses Stacey so much.
(c) She gets sick with scarlet fever.
(d) She learns how to do the canning.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cassie feel about Suzella leaving?

2. What does Wordell do while Cassie is sick?

3. At church, it is discovered that Jacey Peters is pregnant. Who is rumored to be the father?

4. What bad news does the family receive in a letter from Papa?

5. What does Cassie do when she sees her brother Stacey is changing?

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