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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Papa do when he hears the news?
(a) He waits to hear more.
(b) He begins a new search.
(c) He tells the Sheriff.
(d) He goes to find out more.

2. What does the Sheriff say about the way the landowners treat the cane workers?
(a) He thinks the landowners need to let the workers have more breaks.
(b) He believes the cane workers need to form a union.
(c) He agrees that the cane workers are lazy.
(d) He disagrees with the way they treat the workers.

3. What does Sheriff Dobbs and Mr. Peck tell the Turners they must do?
(a) The Turners must tear up a portion of their cotton crop.
(b) They must not plant any cotton next year.
(c) They must get another cow.
(d) They must sell some of their crop to pay taxes.

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

5. What does Cousin Bud tell them when he arrives?
(a) That he and Suzella's mother are getting a divorce and Suzella is going back to New York to live with her mother.
(b) That he is taking Suzella back to New York because he and her mother are going to try to save their marriage.
(c) He is taking Suzella to New York so they can go to Time Square on New Year's Eve.
(d) He is going to divorce Suzella's mother and he wants his daughter to stay with the Logans.

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

7. What news does Mr. Jamison bring on New Year's Day?
(a) A Buford Sheriff is looking for some boys from Baton Rouge who ran away.
(b) There is a statewide search for some boys who escaped a plantation in Buford.
(c) He is to receive information in the morning about some boys working on a plantation near Baton Rouge.
(d) The Sheriff of Baton Rouge is looking for the parents of some boys who ran away from a plantation in Buford.

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

9. How does Papa describe their family without Stacey?
(a) He and Mama will divorce and the family will be split apart.
(b) The family will divide without Stacey.
(c) The family will heal and eventually go on without Stacey.
(d) The family is a body, and without Stacey they are no longer complete.

10. Who does Cassie find sick in the forest?
(a) Wordell.
(b) Christopher-John.
(c) Little Man.
(d) Son Boy.

11. What condition are Stacey and Moe in when they are brought up?
(a) Moe is in better shape than Stacey.
(b) They are bleeding and dressed in rags.
(c) Both boys are in good shape.
(d) Stacey is in better shape than Moe.

12. On Christmas morning, what song does the Logan family sing?
(a) Silent Night.
(b) Will the Circle be Unbroken?
(c) Will the Circle be Broken?
(d) White Christmas.

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

14. What happened to the boy who died?
(a) He was shot by hunters.
(b) He died of diptheria.
(c) An alligator got him as they crossed the swamp.
(d) He got caught in a beaver trap.

15. What does Suzella do to try to befriend Cassie?
(a) She offers to take Cassie swimming.
(b) She offers to do Cassie's hair.
(c) She pulls jiggers out of Cassie's feet.
(d) She offers to let Cassie borrow some of her city dresses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cassie overhear when Papa leaves his bedroom?

2. Who joins Papa when he returns from the railroad to search for Stacey?

3. Who accuses Dube Cross of helping with the union?

4. From where does Suzella get lessons?

5. When Russell and Dube go to the meeting, what do they witness the "night men" doing?

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