Grade 5 - Fall Midterm

Why was Ivy surprised to get a present for her birthday?

• Ivy missed too much school so her parents were punishing her.

• She had already received so many gifts that year and she didn't have any space left in bedroom.

• Children of color weren't allowed to get gifts in that area.

• Her family's farm was not successful and they didn't have enough money for gifts.

How does Ivy feel about skipping school sometimes?

• She doesn't like it because she hates working on the farm and helping her family.

• She doesn't like it because it makes it hard for her to keep up with school work.

• She likes it because her school is really far away and she doesn't like walking there.

• She likes it because she loves to pick cotton and work on the farm all day.

What is a sharecropper?

• A machine that is used during a harvest to divide and share the crops amongst the farmers equally.

• A kind of bug that destroys all the cotton and causes a poor harvest.

• Farmers who share their crops with each other and the whole community.

• Farmers who pay for the land that they rent with a percentage of the crop that they grow.

Why doesn’t Ivy go to the school that is closer to her home?

• She isn't allowed to go there. Only white children can attend that school.

• She doesn't like to attend school with white children.

• She likes to take long walks so she prefers the school that is further away.

• The closer school doesn't allow her to take off days to work on the farm.

What does Ivy’s mother’s say about Jim Crow laws?

• She says that they are a way to give people of color more opportunity and bring both communities together.

• She says that they keep the crows away from the cotton farms so that people can have a better harvest.

• She says that they are a way to keep people of color from having the same opportunities as white people.

• She says that they help the sharecroppers to pay their debts to Mr. Greenfield.

Why didn’t Ivy’s family have a good harvest that year?

• Mr. Greenfield didn't give them enough fertilizer and tools.

• The wanted to leave for California so they didn't work as hard.

• Boll weevils attacked their cotton crop.

• They didn't have enough people to pick the bolls.

Who makes Ivy feel nervous?

• Her uncle Eugene makes her feel nervous.

• Her friend Eve makes her feel nervous.

• Her mother and father make her feel nervous.

• Mr. Greenfield makes her feel nervous.

Where does Ivy say that Negros are migrating to ‘today’ to escape segregation?

• She says that they are going east, to New York.

• She says that they are migrating west, Los Angeles.

• She says that they are going south, to Mississippi.

• She says that they are going north, to Chicago.

When did Ivy find out that they were moving?

• On October 10, when she sat down for dinner.

• On September 28, when she was at school.

• When they were having Thanksgiving dinner.

• On October 25, when she arrived in Los Angeles.

How did Ivy’s family travel to California?

• Los Angeles

• river boat

• Plane

• Train