The document provides character descriptions and plot details from the novel The Land by Mildred D. Taylor. It describes the main characters Cassie Logan and her family who are sharecroppers in Mississippi in the 1940s. It summarizes key events like Cassie's mother losing her teaching job for punishing two students, the Berry family being burned by the Wallaces, and Papa setting a fire at the end to distract a lynch mob from TJ.

1. Characters The Land
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2. The stubborn, feisty girl who is
the main character

3. Who is Cassie Logan?

4. The super neat, youngest Logan

5. Who is Little Man?

6. Scrawny young man who lies and
cheats

7. Who is TJ Avery?

8. A lonely man who is as big as a
tree

9. Who is Mr. Morrison?

10. The town lawyer who treats black
people well

11. Who is Mr. Jamison?

12. A farmer who rents his land from
a landowner

13. What is a sharecropper?

14. The man who purchased the
Logan land

15. Who is Grandpa Paul Edward?

16. What do the Logans live?

17. What is Mississippi?

18. Who wants to get the Logan
land?

19. Who is Mr. Granger?

20. Who did the Logans buy their
land from?

21. Who are a northerner and Mr.
Jamison?

22. Why does father work far away
from the family?

23. To pay the mortgage since cotton
prices are low.

24. The second job Papa takes to pay
bills.

25. What is Railroad worker?

26. The job that Mama does.

27. What is teacher at Great Faith
School?

28. Who does Mama whip for
cheating?

29. Who are Stacy and TJ?

30. The reasons that Mama loses her
job?

31. Because TJ tells on her and
because she is boycotting the
Wallace Store.

32. Mama does this to books at
school.

33. What is paste a paper over the
offensive words?

34. This man forces Cassie to
apologize to his daughter.

35. Who is Mr. Simms?

36. The family who is burned by the
Wallaces.

37. Who are the Berrys?

38. The reason Cassie gets mad at the
store owner in Strawberry.

39. What is he waits on white people
before Cassie who is first?

40. The crime that the Wallaces
frame TJ for.

41. What is the murder of Mr.
Barnett?

42. The way that the children get
revenge on the bus?

43. What is dig a ditch to strand the
bus?

44. The girl that Cassie learns the
secrets of and beats up.

45. Who is Lillian Jean?

46. Who sells his car to help the
Logans pay their mortgage?

47. Who is Uncle Hammer?

48. The way Mr. Morrison is able to
get past the Wallaces on the road.

49. What is he moves their car
himself?

50. How does the fire at the end of
the story get started?

51. Papa sets it to distract the lynch
mob from TJ.