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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Study Guide Test-May 20th
Directions: Select thebest 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:
The Great Depression
____2. At the story’s beginning, the cause of the greatest anger and indignity to the four Logan children is
the white children’s school bus
____3. Why is Little Man is very upset on his first day of school?
Little Man becomes upset when his teacher passes out books (the used books from the white school).
____4. This character has gotten back all of his land except for the four hundred acres owned by the Logans.
Mr. Granger
____5. Why did Big Ma signed over the land to Uncle Hammer and Papa?
She is afraid her sons could be cheated out of the land after she dies
____6. When Uncle Hammer first returns to visit the family, what is the overall mood? Excitement
____7. At the bridge, why do the Wallaces stop and let Uncle Hammer’s Packard cross the bridge before their truck?
They think Uncle Hammer’s car is Harlan Granger’s car
____8. Why does the author include the story about Uncle Hammer passing the Wallaces on the bridge?
It uses comic relief to show how Uncle Hammer was not willing to accept the Wallaces’ prejudice
____9. Which of the following is an example of foreshadowing as used in the story?
Mama tells Uncle Hammer that someday they will pay for his trick on the bridge
____10. Which of the following is the best example of the theme of friendship?Jeremy giving Stacey a Christmas present
____11. Which of the following incidents shows that the Logan children do not accept racial prejudice?
They refused the books from the white schools
____12. Which of the following relationships exhibits social injustice and prejudice?Lillian Jean and Cassie
____13. Why did Big Ma make Cassie apologize to Lillian Jean in Strawberry?
Big Ma feared what might happen to the family if Cassie didn’t apologize
___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 flashback
____15. What is the most likely reason Mr. Granger did not want the Logans shopping in Vicksburg?
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?Fear
____17. The person who backs the credit in Vicksburg for the sharecroppers isMr. Jamison
____18. What is the best meaning of the following quote that Papa told Cassie, “Ain’t nobody’s respect worth more than your own”?People need to respect themselves first before they can earn the respect of others
____19. Which of the following characters was the least likely to show prejudice to the Logans?Mr. Jamison
____20. What incident foreshadows Mama’s firing from her teaching position at school?
Ms. Crockett telling Mama she has defaced school property and could get in trouble
____21. What is the most likely reason that the author includes a thunderstorm the night T.J. is arrested?
It foreshadows that something awful will happen
____22. What does the reader learn about the cause of the fire in the cotton field?
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?Clever
____24. Why does the author include the poem, “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”?
It shows the determination of the Logans and blacks to not let prejudice get them down
____25. The night riders do not hang T.J. becausethe fire begins in the cotton fields
____26. In the closing paragraph, why does Cassie cry for T.J. and the land?She finally understand what prejudice can do to a person or family
____27. The two main themes of this novel are:the wrong of social injustice and the importance of family
____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)
Simile and personification
____29. Who is the author of the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is?Mildred D. Taylor