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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On Sunday morning, what secret does Cassie have?
(a) She has a secret game of marbles planned.
(b) She has a secret crush on Son Boy.
(c) She is going to visit Wordell in the woods.
(d) She is going to skip church.

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

4. Where is the first Union meeting held?
(a) In the Logan back yard.
(b) In the courthouse.
(c) In the Turner barn.
(d) At the Logans.

5. Who returns home wearing an Army uniform?
(a) Russell.
(b) Dube.
(c) Don Lee.
(d) Wordell.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Mr. Barnett killed?

2. Why is Jeremy Sims nervous around the Logan children?

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

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

5. What do Mama and Cousin Bud agree on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe TJ Avery's predicament in the story.

2. How would you interpret Cousin Bud's reason for wanting his daughter to spend time with the Logan family?

3. What is the most important evidence against TJ Avery at his murder trial? Why?

4. Analyze the reaction of finding Doris Ann hanging from a rope, in spite of the obvious fact that Wordell was the reason she did not die.

5. What reasons does Stacey give at the end of Chapter 2 for what happened to Cassie and her brothers at the courthouse?

6. Paraphrase the story Cassie tells about how her family came to own their land.

7. After Papa drops out of the government program, why does he refuse Mr. Granger's offer to pay the added taxes he will now owe?

8. Based on what you have learned up to Chapter 6, what problems would you say Cousin Bud faces because he married a white woman?

9. Summarize why a sharecropper can never earn enough money to buy his land.

10. How would you interpret the Logan children's decision to sneak to the trial of their friend?

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