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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most important thing that the Logans need to buy before the first cotton comes in?

2. After Uncle Hammer goes home, where do Cassie and her papa talk about forgiveness?

3. What subject is Mrs. Logan teaching when members of the school board come to observe her classroom?

4. Where did the Simms brothers go after robbing the Barnetts’ store?

5. Where do T.J. and Stacey land after Stacey confronts T.J. about his mother being fired?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Logan children see after they get T.J. home?

2. Why does Mr. Wiggins want to borrow a planter from the Logans?

3. What is Mrs. Logan teaching when members of the school board come to observe her classroom?

4. How does Cassie realize how the fire started?

5. What can Cassie smell cooking Christmas morning?

6. What does Mr. Logan do when he hears about T.J. and that Stacey is still up in the woods?

7. How does Cassie threaten Lillian Jean when the girl threatens to tell her father that Cassie beat her up?

8. What happened to Mr. Morrison’s family?

9. In Chapter 9, why does Mr. Jamison come to talk to Mr. Logan?

10. How does Jeremy say that R.W. and Melvin treat T.J.?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Thunder and storms occur in the novel during times of conflict. How often does a thunderstorm occur during a time of crisis? What does thunder symbolize in the novel? Does thunder sometimes foreshadow events to come? What does the title of the novel mean?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the novel, the author uses analogies to help explain and describe what is happening. How do analogies help readers visualize what is happening? Why do the analogies make it easier for readers to “see” what is going on? How do the comparisons in the analogies used assist readers?

Essay Topic 3

For Christmas, Stacey and Cassie receive books written by Alexandre Dumas. Why did Mr. Logan choose those books? What do the books represent to Mr. Logan? To Mrs. Logan? To the children? What do the books symbolize?

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