Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Book Review

Who said, “And if you continue to encourage people not to shop at the Wallace store, you could still lose it. Don’t forget that Harlan leases that store land to the Wallaces and gets a hefty percentage of its revenue… he’s hardly going to stand for your interfering with it.”

• Mama

• Jeremy

• Mr. Jamison

• Mr. Morrison

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Who said, “I ain’t never had no children of my own.I think sometimes if I had, I’d’ve wanted a son and daughter just like you and Mr.Logan.”

• Uncle Hammer

• Mr. Avery

• Mr. Granger

• Mr. Morrison

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Who said, “You think my brother died and I got my leg half blown off in their German war to have some red-neck knock Cassie around anytime it suits him? If I’d’ve knocked his girl down, you know what’d’ve happened to me?”

• Mr. Jamison

• Uncle Hammer

• Papa

• Mr. Morrison

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“In the first place, no one cares enough to come down here, and in the second place if anyone should come, maybe he could see all the things we need –current books for all of our subjects, not just somebody’s old throwaways, desks,paper, blackboards, erasers, maps,chalk…”

• Big Ma

• Cassie

• Mrs. Crocker

• Mama

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“You ever seen a gun like that before in your whole life? I’d sell my life for that gun. One of these days I’m gonna have it, too.”

• T.J.

• Little Man

• Stacey

• Jeremy

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True or False:

Little Man likes to play in the dirt and rough house outside.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Little Man prefers to stay neat and clean.

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In the course of the novel, Cassie

• discovers that the world isn't always going to treat her kindly.

• learns that she is treated equally with everyone.

• discovers that her school is inferior to the white school.

• learns that she needs to learn how to cook.

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Why does T.J. go along with R.W. and Melvin's plan at the end of the novel?

• He doesn't know any better.

• He is hoping to get money from the mercantile.

• He is doing it because R.W. and Melvin told him to.

• He wants to purchase the gun.

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True or False:

Mama thinks through problems and comes up with solutions.

• True

• False

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Which of the following might be the reason why Mama went door to door to get the black community to band together and boycott the Wallace store?

• To send a "message" to the Walllaces about the way they treat the black community.

• To convince them to lower the prices in their store.

• To get the black community to stop arguing among themselves and work together.

• To convince Harlan Granger to pay his sharecroppers better.

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