Sugar

After emancipation, why had Sugar and Ma stayed at River Road Plantation?

• Mister Wills had promised to provide Sugar with a proper education.

• They waited for Pa, who had been sold right after Sugar was born.

• Ma loved Billy like a son and couldn't stand to leave him.

• Freed slaves who fled often returned battered and penniless.

What was true of Missus Beale?

• She felt it was her duty to raise Sugar after Ma died.

• She had worked in the big house since she was a child.

• She loves to tell stories and play games with Sugar and the other children.

• She hated Mister Beale and did everything she could to make him miserable.

Why did Mr. Beale scold Sugar and demand payment of one dollar?

• She threw a rock and broke a window while trying to wake Billy.

• She hid in a tree and skipped work on the final day of the cane harvest.

• She tossed Billy's schoolbooks into the river in a fit of rage.

• She knocked over a pot of boiling peanuts while chasing Rooster Ugly.

On Planting Day, Sugar's work song prompted the Chinese workers to----

• give her a new name, "Larksong" in honor of her beautiful voice.

• slow down and match the rhythm of the River Road folks.

• refuse until Mr. Wills removed their shackles.

• distract Overseer Tom so Missus Beale and Miss Thornton could rest.

What first brought the Chinese and African workers together in their yard?

• Mister and Misuss Beale had a party to celebrate their children's return.

• The Africans tended to the Chinese workers who were sick with malaria.

• Sugar used her money to buy a horse, and the workers gathered to admire it.

• After Sugars prodding, the African women prepared food for the Chinese men.

Despite being told to stay out, why did Sugar enter the Big House?

• Billy was sick, and she wanted to help him.

• She demanded that Mister Wills help her locate Pa.

• Anthony had come home, and she feared he was mistreating Billy.

• Her money was missing, and she suspected Overseer Tom had stolen it.

Overseer Tom was fired and told to the leave the plantation after he---

• shoved Billy to the ground, spat on him and called him a coward.

• chased Sugar on horseback and trampled a long stretch of sugar cane.

• tried to whip Sugar for tricking him with the Chinese finger trap.

• tied Beau to a hitching post and left him there for three days.

What happened after Billy, Beau, and Sugar crept away from the gator nest?

• They encountered Mister Tom, who struck Beau and aimed a rifle at him.

• Sugar fell into the river, and the strong current swept her away.

• An African man pulled up on a raft and asked if they knew Missus Beale.

• Billy stepped in a beaver trap, and his blood, and his blood attracted a large gator.

What did Sugar discover the night she set out alone in search of Jade?

• Mister Wills had gambled away most of his inheritance.

• Mister Tom had started a fire inside of the mill.

• Billy's brother, Anthony, and Lizzie had been sweethearts.

• A mob was searching for the Chinese men and planned to kill them.

Sugar realized she had to leave River Road shortly after----

• Mister Tom escaped from jail.

• she received a letter from Lizzie, who had moved to Chicago.

• Mister Wills sold the plantation.

• Beau died from an injury he received in the cane field.