WorksheetsMississippi Trial, 1955 Unit Test
Total questions: 63
Worksheet time: 34mins
Emmett Till's personality could be described as...
an ignorant peckerwood
fun loving & free spirited
disrespectful and rude
smart and nerdy
Author's purpose-- Why did the author, Chris Crowe, write this book?
To tell Hiram Hillburn's tragic story, since it was left out of the history books.
To educate kids about the civil rights movement.
Because he likes murder mysteries.
To tell Emmett Till's tragic story, since it was left out of the history books.
Emmett Till's body was found in the...
Yazoo River
Mississippi Delta
Tallahatchie River
cotton fields in which his uncle Mose sharecropped.
What was tied around the neck of Emmett's body?
a necktie
a noose
a confession
a gin fan
How did Uncle Mose Wright identify the corpse as Emmett Till's?
There was no facial hair on the body.
Emmett's tatoo
Emmett's father's ring was on the body (finger).
The body had on Emmett's clothing
Who were the two men that were charged with the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till?
Earl Hillburn
RC Rydell
JW Milam
Roy Bryant
Fictional or nonfictional character-- Emmett Till?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character-- RC Rydell?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character-- Sheriff Strider?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character-- Attorneys Chatham & Breland?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character-- Gramma & Grampa Hillburn?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character-- Ralph & Ronnie Remington?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character-- JW Milam & Roy Bryant?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character-- Hiram Hillburn?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character--Mr. Paul?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character--Chester?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character--Willie Reed?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character--Naomi Rydell?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character--Mose Wright?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character--Ruthanne Parker?
fictional character
nonfictional character
Fictional or nonfictional character--Caroline Bryant?
fictional character
nonfictional character
What two forms of figurative language exist in the following quote? "Mose Wright stood as calm as Jesus on stormy water."
simile
metaphor
idiom
allusion
Why is Emmett Till known as the "Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement"?
He was black.
He was fuzzy like a lamb.
He was a black boy who was murdered by white supremacists, in the Jim Crow South, and his death gave the Civil Rights Movement momentum.
His death happened just before the civil rights movement started.
What did the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education declare?
Separate but equal is the best policy for schools
All schools should offer bus transportation
Black schools in the South were superior
Racially segregated schools are unconstitutional.
What was the main purpose for Chris Crowe to create the character, Grampa, Earle, Hillburn?
Common Mississippian of 1955 & the unidentified 3rd man involved in Emmett's kidnapping and murder.
Hiram needed someone to visit, so he'd be in Mississippi to attend the trial for Emmett's murderers.
Romance
To show the white landowner
What was the main purpose for Chris Crowe to create the character, Naomi Rydell?
A kid Hiram's age for Hiram to hang out with and be friends.
Hiram needed someone to visit, so he'd be in Mississippi to attend the trial for Emmett's murderers.
Romance
To show that not everyone in Mississippi was racist.
What was the main purpose for Chris Crowe to create the character, RC Rydell?
A kid Hiram's age for Hiram to hang out with and be friends.
Hiram needed someone to visit, so he'd be in Mississippi to attend the trial for Emmett's murderers.
Romance
To show that Jim Crow Southern ideals were passed down through the generations, & a red herring that places Hiram at the trial.
What was the purpose of the characters Ronnie and Ralph Remington?
Comic relief & someone to tell Hiram the truth about Grampa.
Hiram needed someone to visit, so he'd be in Mississippi to attend the trial for Emmett's murderers.
To show that not all Mississippians were racist.
To show that Jim Crow Southern ideals were passed down through the generations, & a red herring (mystery).
Why was Mr. Paul's character included in this story?
Comic relief & someone to tell Hiram the truth about Grampa.
Hiram needed someone to visit, so he'd be in Mississippi to attend the trial for Emmett's murderers.
To show that not all Mississippians were racist.
To be Hiram's voice of reason and/or Hiram's dad's perspective (anti-racist) in a Mississippi man whom Hiram respects.
What is the best theme for the novel, Mississippi Trial, 1955?
Hate
Racism
Father & son relationships
The art of peckerwooding
In chapter 3 Gramma died. Why did the author have to take Gramma out of the story in the exposition?
She was the buffer between Hiram and Grampa & Grampa & Harlan.
So Ruthanne would have a reason to be there.
So Hiram would have to leave Greenwood and not return until 1955.
Because she wasn't a necessary character.
How does Hiram initially hear of the trouble in Money?
The radio
RC tells him there was trouble with a strange boy up to Bryant's store.
The Greenwood Commonwealth
The Sheriff's deputy told him, over the phone, that it was a boy from Chicago.
How could the author imply one of his fictional characters as a man involved in the torture and murder of Emmett Till?
Because it's fiction
Because there was a third, unidentified man, in the actual case.
Because someone had to have been the 3rd man.
Because Grampa really was the 3rd man.
When Sheriff Strider testifies he tries to convince the court that it wasn't Emmett Till's body that was recovered from the river. Who did he say it was and what were the circumstances behind it all?
The NAACP dug up a body and put it in the river.
Some random body with Emmett's ring—placed in the river by Northern rabble-rousers.
It wasn't even human.
He said it was the body of a 90-year old sharecropper who tied a gin fan around his own neck and tried to swim across the Tallahatchie.
What events foreshadow the possibility R.C.'s involvement in Emmett's abduction and murder?
RC disappearing after Emmett was abducted.
RC attacking Emmett at the river then saying he was going to help straighten out a Northern boy.
Hiram calling the sheriff.
Grampa telling Hiram that he hoped RC wasn't involved.
What foreshadows the possibility of Grampa's involvement in Emmett's abduction and murder?
Grampa yelling at the black sharecropper.
Late night "Council" meetings, lending out the truck, thumbs up from Milam in court, and selling his truck.
Grampa visiting Mr. Cristler at the courthouse, telling Hiram that Emmett caused his own trouble, and trying to keep Hiram from testifying.
Emmett being killed, Milam and Brant being arrested, and the articles in the Greenwood Commonwealth.
Define protagonist
the main character
the force of conflict against the main character
the main problem around which the entire plot revolves
the solution to the main conflict
Define antagonist
the main character
the force of conflict against the main character
the main problem around which the entire plot revolves
the solution to the main conflict
Define central conflict
the solution to the central conflict
the force of conflict against the main character
the one plot event that makes the central conflict possible- that pits the protagonist against the antagonist
the main problem around which the entire plot revolves
Define inciting incident
the solution to the central conflict
the force of conflict against the main character
the one plot event that makes the central conflict possible- that pits the protagonist against the antagonist
the main problem around which the entire plot revolves
Define climax
the solution to the central conflict
the high point of the action for the protagonist
the one plot event that makes the central conflict possible- that pits the protagonist against the antagonist
the events in which the plot builds
Define resolution
the solution to the central conflict
the high point of the action for the protagonist
the one plot event that makes the central conflict possible- that pits the protagonist against the antagonist
the events in which the plot builds
Define exposition
the events in which the plot builds
the initial development of character, setting and plot
the one plot event that makes the central conflict possible- that pits the protagonist against the antagonist
the main problem around which the entire plot revolves
Define falling action
the events in which the plot builds
the initial development of character, setting and plot
the plot events in which the story wrapped up
the main problem around which the entire plot revolves
Define rising action
the events in which the plot builds
the initial development of character, setting and plot
the plot events in which the story wrapped up
the main problem around which the entire plot revolves
Who is the protagonist of Mississippi Trial, 1955?
Emmett Till
RC Rydell
Grampa, Earl Hillburn
Hiram Hillburn
Who or what is the antagonist of Mississippi Trial, 1955?
Man- Emmett Till
Society- Jim Crow Southern ideals
Nature-the Tallahatchie River
Man- Roy Bryant & JW Milam
What is the CENTRAL CONFLICT of Mississippi Trail, 1955?
Man v. Man-- Hiram v. RC Rydell
Man v. Self-- Emmett v. Emmett's ignorance of the Southern Jim Crow ways
Man v. Society-- Hiram v. Southern Jim Crow ideals.
Man v. Nature-- Emmett Till v. Tallahatchie River
What event was the inciting incident of the Central Conflict of Mississippi Trial, 1955?
Emmett whistling at Mrs. Bryant
Emmett meeting Hiram at the train station
Hiram moving to Arizona at age 9
Hiram returning to Greenwood, Mississippi August 1955
How is the central conflict resolved?
Grampa did it; he was the 3rd man.
Hiram realizes that he agrees with his dad on the subjects of racism & equal rights.
RC did it; he was the 3rd man.
Emmett's body is found, recovered, and Bryant and Milam are arrested and tried.
What is the climax of the central conflict?
RC terrorizes Emmett at the river.
Hiram meets Naomi at the Fulton Street Bridge
Hiram decides to testify if called upon to do so.
Grampa got home late the night Emmett was abducted.
Which type of characterization is when the author develops a character by showing the character, using dialogue specific to that character's personality, describing the character's actions or reactions in the plot, and/or divulging the character's thoughts, feelings, ideas etc.
direct characterization
indirect characterization
How is Grampa characterized in this quote, "'... I tell you son, mixing Negroes with our white students is going to ruin our schools and all America...'"
direct characterization
indirect characterization
Which type of characterization is this quote from narration, "When we were kids, I figured R.C. was plain mean, but after what happened to Emmett, I knew R.C. was worse than mean."
direct characterization
indirect characterization
How is Emmett characterized in this quote, "'Ain't b-been raised to be nobody's old p-porter,'"
direct characterization
indirect characterization
Which type of characterization is this quote from the narration, "His clothes set him apart from other Negroes I had seen around the station."
direct characterization
indirect characterization
Which type of characterization is this quote from narration, "She walked with her head down like she was trying to be invisible."
direct characterization
indirect characterization
Figurative Language-- "'Ain't Hiram a regular old Romeo?'" Check all that apply.
metaphor
simile
allusion
dialect
Figurative language-- "'Mr. Breland's argument was so full of holes that even I could see he didn't have a leg to stand on.'" Check all that apply.
idiom
simile
metaphor
dialect
Figurative language-- "'You Mr. Hillburn's gran'child, ain't you?'" Check all that apply.
imagery
simile
onomatopoeia
dialect
Figurative language-- "Both men looked about as comfortable as cows in a slaughterhouse." Check all that apply.
imagery
simile
onomatopoeia
dialect
Figurative language-- "'The first words that entered this case, 'I want the boy from Chicago who did the talking at Money;' were dripping with the blood of Emmett Till.'" Check all that apply.
imagery
metaphor
onomatopoeia
dialect
What is the genre of this novel?
historical fiction
realistic fiction
nonfiction
fantasy
