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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 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 white and have a "colored" father?
(c) What is it like to be bi-racial?
(d) What is it like to be "colored" and have a white mother?

2. When Uncle Hammer returns for Christmas, what does he do?
(a) He helps the children search for the perfect Christmas tree and makes a traditional meal.
(b) He helps them decorate a Christmas tree.
(c) He cooks their traditional Christmas meal.
(d) He makes hoghead sause and takes the children to chop down a Christmas tree.

3. What happens when Cassie sees Wordell running toward the crowd?
(a) She goes after him, hoping to stop him from hurting anyone as he tries to protect Mrs. Lee Annie and Russell.
(b) She goes after him because she is afraid he will start throwing bottles, too.
(c) She runs into Mr. Jamison's office to hide.
(d) She goes into Mr. Jamison's office to get her father to help stop Wordell.

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

5. 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 told the boys he would pay them if they came back after the season was over.
(c) He said they had a contract and hadn't lived up to their end of it.
(d) He said they had to stay to the end of the season or go to jail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Jake Willis offers a gift to Suzella?

2. Who accompanies Mrs. Lee Annie into the courthouse?

3. What does Little Man tell the others about Mr. Morrison while sitting on the river bank?

4. What does Big Ma tell Cassie when she complains about Suzella?

5. On Christmas morning, what song does the Logan family sing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the three young men humiliate Cousin Bud? Are their actions considered hypocritical?

2. Why do you think Mrs. Lee Annie continues her pursuit of registering to vote in spite of the fact that her friends oppose the idea?

3. Explain why the Turners have to tear out part of their crop. Discuss why this is seen as unjust.

4. What does Cassie remember being told about Wordell when she finds him standing over the dead cat?

5. Why is Dube Cross in favor of the union?

6. In the final chapter, what does the Sheriff reveal about why he is letting Stacey and Moe go?

7. What happens when Mrs. Lee Annie goes to the courthouse to register to vote?

8. What information do the Logans get about Stacey?

9. Describe what must Cassie be feeling as she watches the impact Stacey's running away has on her family?

10. Up to this point in the story, what changes has Cassie observed around her, and why is she so determined to keep things the same?

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