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"Roll of Thunder" Chapters 1-3

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where does Papa tell the kids they can't go?

a)

school

b)

The Granger Store

c)

The Granger Plantation

d)

The Wallace Store

2.

How does Little Man react to the book that Miss Crocker gave him?

a)

He loved it!

b)

He threw it in the garbage can.

c)

He threw it on the ground and jumped on it.

d)

He threw it out the window.

3.

Where does Papa work?

a)

Granger Plantation

b)

on the railroad

c)

Wallace Store

d)

Great Faith School District

4.

What's the real reason Papa brought Mr. Morrison home to the farm?

a)

To help Mama cook and do the dishes

b)

To protect the family

c)

To attack the Wallaces

d)

To take down trees on the land and sell them

5.

What happened to the school bus for the white school?

a)

It crashed into the woods.

b)

It got two flat tires.

c)

It broke down in a man-made lake on the road.

d)

It stopped and picked up the Logan children.

6.

The main conflict of the story is...

a)

man vs. man (Stacey and T.J.)

b)

man vs. society

(racial discrimination)

c)

man vs. nature (constant rain)

d)

man vs. self

(TJ wants to become a better person)

7.

The Logan children worry the night men came to the house...

a)

because they needed to borrow some sugar.

b)

because they wanted to buy some trees from the land.

c)

because of how Little Man treated his textbook.

d)

because of what happened to the school bus.

8.

"…the dust, which seemed to be rejoicing in its own resiliency and laughing at the heavy drops thudding against it…” is an example of which figurative language device?

a)

personification

b)

alliteration

c)

simile

d)

onomatopoeia

9.

What word means to regularly shop somewhere?

a)

feigned

b)

discourse

c)

patronize

d)

listlessly

10.

What word means grouchy or unhappy?

a)

discourse

b)

disgruntled

c)

feigned

d)

resiliency

11.

What word means a serious or lengthy story or conversation?

a)

discourse

b)

disgruntled

c)

transfixed

d)

patronize

12.

What word means the ability to spring back or rebound?

a)

feigned

b)

engrossed

c)

resiliency

d)

listlessly

13.

What word means without any energy or anxiously?

a)

resiliency

b)

transfixed

c)

listlessly

d)

ransacked

14.

What word means searched violently?

a)

ransacked

b)

disgruntled

c)

transfixed

d)

discourse

15.

What word means completely occupied or fascinated by something?

a)

transfixed

b)

engrossed

c)

resiliency

d)

discourse

16.

What word means in a fixed position or unable to move?

a)

feigned

b)

disgruntled

c)

engrossed

d)

transfixed

17.

What word means pretended or faked?

a)

ransacked

b)

disgruntled

c)

feigned

d)

engrossed