Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands

The protagonist in the novel is named

• Doto
• Reesa
• Ren
• Mitchell

The future Supreme Court justice who appears in the book is

• Potter Stewart
• Ruth Bader Ginsberg
• Clarence Thomas
• Thurgood Marshall

The McMahon family lived in modern day _______, the name of the town in the book was the fictionalized Plymouth, FL.

• Orlando
• Ocoee
• Sanford
• Apopka

The person(s) most responsible for bringing down the KKK in the story were

• Reesa McMahon
• Marvin Wiley
• the local "CIA" women
• the NAACP

The favorite baseball team of Marvin and his friends and family was the

• New York Giants
• Brooklyn Dodgers
• Homestead Grays
• Birmingham Black Barons

Warren McMahon makes his living in the book by

• operating a citrus farm.
• running a hardware store.
• working at the post office.
• practicing law for the NAACP.

The book is set in the 

• 1950s
• 1960s
• 1930s
• 1920s

Reesa's family was originally ________, and as she calls it were _______.

• Catholic; Yankees
• Jewish; New Englanders.
• Methodist; Cornhuskers.
• Baptist; Florida Crackers.

The McMahon's are isolated in Plymouth because they are

• use dynamite on their farm.
• refuse to change their religion.
• friendly with black families.
• working for the NAACP.

Doto gets her name from

• it was her nickname as a burlesque dancer.
• the nickname Marvin gave her when he was little and couldn't say Delores.
• a shortened version of her name Dorothy.
• her car, a DeSoto.