Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Study Guide Test-May 20Th

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Study Guide Test-May 20th

Directions: Select the best answer to each of the questions below. Write your answer choice on the line provided.

____1. The genre of this novel is realistic/historical fiction. The major historical event that is the backdrop of this novel :

____2. At the story’s beginning, the cause of the greatest anger and indignity to the four Logan children is

a. the weather

b. the white children’s school

c. the Wallace store

d. the white children’s school bus

____3. Why is Little Man is very upset on his first day of school?

____4. This character has gotten back all of his land except for the four hundred acres owned by the Logans.

a. Mr. Granger

b. Mr. Jamison

c. Mr. Wallace

d. Mr. Morrison

____5. Why did Big Ma signed over the land to Uncle Hammer and Papa?

____6. When Uncle Hammer first returns to visit the family, what is the overall mood?

a. Excitement

b. Fear

c. Uncertainty

d. Distrust

____7. At the bridge, why do the Wallaces stop and let Uncle Hammer’s Packard cross the bridge before their truck?

____8. Why does the author include the story about Uncle Hammer passing the Wallaces on the bridge? ____9. Which of the following is an example of foreshadowing as used in the story?

a. Mama tells Uncle Hammer that someday they will pay for his trick on the bridge

b. Big Ma tells Papa that they would not give up the land, no matter what

c. Big Ma seeing Mr. Jamison about the mortgage papers while she is in Strawberry

d. Papa brings Mr. Morrison to stay with and take care of his family

____10. Which of the following is the best example of the theme of friendship?

a. Mama covering the offensive word with paper in the front of the textbooks

b. Cassie carrying Lillian Jean’s books for her

c. Papa bringing Mr. Morrison home with him

d. Jeremy giving Stacey a Christmas present

____11. Which of the following incidents shows that the Logan children do not accept racial prejudice?

a. They refused to walk to school any longer

b. They would not walk to school with Jeremy Simms

c. They refused to go to Strawberry again

d. They refused the books from the white schools

____12. Which of the following relationships exhibits social injustice and prejudice?

a. Mama and Big Ma

b. Stacey and Jeremy

c. Lillian Jean and Cassie

d. T.J. and Stacey

____13. Why did Big Ma make Cassie apologize to Lillian Jean in Strawberry? ___14. Big Ma takes Cassie to the area of the farm known as the “Caroline”. The reader learns about how Big Ma and Paul Edward met, fell in love and purchased the land. This literary device is known as

a. flashback

b. foreshadowing

c. narrative hook

d. exposition

____15. What is the most likely reason Mr. Granger did not want the Logans shopping in Vicksburg?

a. He, too, was afraid of what Mr. Wallace might do to the Logans

b. He was concerned that the Logans would not be able to pay the bills for the sharecroppers

c. He was afraid the Logans would lose their land because the Logans could not pay the mortgage or taxes

d. He did not want any trouble from the Wallace and he didn’t want the Logans causing more problems.

____16. What is the overall tone the night that Papa, Stacey and Mr. Morrison return from Vicksburg?

a. Excitement

b. Anticipation

c. Fear

d. Adventure

____17. The person who backs the credit in Vicksburg for the sharecroppers is

____18. What is the best meaning of the following quote that Papa told Cassie, “Ain’t nobody’s respect worth more than your own”?

a. Cassie needed to learn to accept everyone, black or white, regardless of what they did to her

b. People need to respect themselves first before they can earn the respect of others

c. Cassie could only learn to respect herself if she apologized obediently to Lillian Jean

d. Papa would show what respect was by begging the school board to give Mama her job back

____19. Which of the following characters was the least likely to show prejudice to the Logans?

a. Mr. Granger

b. Mr. Wallace

c. Mr. Barnett

d. Mr. Jamison ____20. What incident foreshadows Mama’s firing from her teaching position at school?

____21. What is the most likely reason that the author includes a thunderstorm the night T.J. is arrested?

a. It foreshadows that something awful will happen

b. It shows that the south gets many storms in the springtime

c. It emphasizes how evil T.J. really was

d. It proves the setting is nighttime

____22. What does the reader learn about the cause of the fire in the cotton field?

a. Mr. Granger started it to ruin the Logan crop so he could get the land back

b. R.W. and Melvin start the fire so that the night riders won’t find T.J.

c. Lightning struck the fence post and the field caught on fire

d. Papa started the fire to distract the night riders from the Avery house

____23. How could Papa’s actions best be described the night the Avery family was being beaten?

a. Cowardly

b. Clever

c. Patient

d. Forgiving

____24. Why does the author include the poem, “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”?

a. It shows that lightening really cause the fire in the cotton field

b. It shows the determination of the Logans and blacks to not let prejudice get them down

c. It was the last song T.J. learned at the Great Faith school

d. It shows slavery was acceptable at this time in the south

____25. The night riders do not hang T.J. because

a. Mr. Granger feels sorry for T.J.

b. Papa begins firing his rifle over their heads

c. Mr. Morrison beats up some of the night riders

d. The fire begins in the cotton fields

____26. In the closing paragraph, why does Cassie cry for T.J. and the land? a. She finally understand what prejudice can do to a person or family

b. She really like T.J. and feels it is partly her fault that he was shot at the Mercantile

c. She knows T.J. will be hanged for killing Mr. Barnett

d. She knows her family will lose their farm to Mr. Granger because of the fire

____27. The two main themes of this novel are:

a. the wrong of social injustice and the importance of family

b. good v. evil and the value of friendship

c. the importance of owning land and protecting it

d. the value of a good education and the difficulties of poverty

____28. The figurative language in the following excerpt from the novel is an example of

“. . .the bus emitted a tremendous crack and careened drunkenly into our trap . . . Then it sputtered a last murmuring protest and died . . . its right wheel in the gully, like a lopsided billy goat on its knees.” (Pg. 54)

____29. Who is the author of the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is?