Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Describe Mr. Morrison. (Chapter 2)

• He was short, nervous man.

• He was tall and intellectual.

• He was of average height and rather heavy.

• He was tall and formidable.

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Why did Papa hire Mr. Morrison? (Chapter 2)

• He felt sorry for him.

• He want him to tutor his children.

• He wanted him to build an extra room on the house.

• To help farm the land while Papa was gone.

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What did Mr. Morrison tell the Logan's about his past? (Chapter 2)

• He had never went to school.

• He had been fired from his last job for beating up a bunch of white men.

• His wife and children left him and went to New York.

• He used to be a drunkard, but now he had stopped drinking.

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How did the congregation feel about the burnings? (Chapter 2)

• They were glad. They thought the people got what they deserved.

• They were upset but felt the law was taking care of things properly.

• THey were angry and made a plan to attack the whites.

• They were digusted and felt that not enough was being done about it.

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Why didn't Papa want the children to go to the Wallaces' store? (Chapter 2)

• People went there to drink and carouse. He also doesnt like Wallaces.

• Papa thought that dancing and music were sinful.

• The store was too far from home.

• The Wallaces were a resoected family in the community and he didnt want his children to embarrass him.

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“‘Well, since y’all don’t seem to know nothin’,’ [he] said, in his usual sickening way of nursing a tidbit of information to death, ‘maybe I ought not tell y’all. It might hurt y’all’s little ears.’” (Pg. 9)

Who is talking?

• Mr. Morrison

• Claude

• Jeremy

• T.J.

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“He was often ridiculed by the other children and had shown up more than once with wide red welts on his arms which…were the result of his associating with us. Still [he] continued to meet us.” (Pg. 14)

Who is being talked about here?

• Mr. Morrison

• Claude

• Jeremy

• T.J.

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“Maybe so, but that doesn't mean they have to accept them...and maybe we don't either…she was considered a disrupting maverick” (21).

Who is being talked about here?

• Miss Crocker

• Mama

• Big Ma

• Lillian Jean

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“But [he] only smiled in that sickly way of his and I knew that he had. He was more afraid of T. J. than of his mother.” (Pg. 12)

Who is she talking about?

• Mr. Morrison

• Claude

• Jeremy

• T.J.

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"The man was a human tree in height, towering high above Papa's 6 feet 2 inches. The long trunk of his massive body bulged with muscles..." p34

Who is being talked about here?

• Mr. Morrison

• Claude

• T.J.

• Jeremy

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