This document contains a series of questions about characters, events, themes, and literary elements from the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. There are over 50 multiple choice questions testing the reader's comprehension of key details and understanding of the novel. The questions cover topics such as characters like Papa, Big Ma, and Mr. Jameson; important events like the fire in the cotton fields and TJ's arrest; central themes of social injustice and family; as well as literary devices used by the author like foreshadowing, flashbacks, and similes.

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Ms. McDermott

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3. I started the fire to save T.J.
Who is Papa?

4. I want the 400 acres that my
grandfather was forced to sell.
Who is Mr. Granger?

5. I gave my land to my two sons
so no one could take it after I
die.
Who is Big Ma?

6. I am the least likely white man
to show prejudice to the
Logans.
Who is Mr. Jameson?

7. I get upset on the 1st day of school
when Ms. Crocker gives me a book.
Who is Little Man?

8. In the exposition, this causes the
Logan children the greatest anger
and indignity.
What is the white children’s
school bus?

9. This is the mood when Uncle Hammer comes
for the holidays.
What is excitement?

10. The night riders do not hang TJ because of this
What is fire that begins in the
cotton fields?

11. This is the reason the author includes the
story about Hammer passing the
Wallaces on the bridge.
What is comic relief to show he
was unwilling to accept prejudice?

12. This is the reason Big Ma makes Cassie
apologize to Ms. Lillian Jean in Strawberry.
What is Big Ma is afraid of what
might happen to the Logans?

13. The two major themes of the
novel.
What are social injustice and the
value of family?

14. Our “fake” friendship exhibits social injustice
and prejudice
Who are Cassie and Lillian Jean?

15. The theme when Jeremy Simms gives Stacey a
Christmas present.
What is friendship?

16. The reason the author included the poem,
“Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”
What is it shows the determination not
to let prejudice get them down?

17. This is the reason Cassie cries at
the end of the novel.
What is she understands what
prejudice can do to a family or
person?

18. The author includes a thunderstorm the
night TJ is arrested.
What is foreshadowing something
terrible.?

19. Mama tells Hammer someday the
family will pay for his actions on the
bridge.
What is foreshadowing?

20. Big Ma tells Cassie the story
of how the family got the land.
What is flashback?

21. This foreshadows Mama’s firing.
What is the warning from Ms.
Crocker she is defacing the
books?

22. Of fear, adventure or excitement, the tone the
night Papa, Stacey and Mr. Morrison return
from Vicksburg.
What is fear?

23. The reason the Wallaces stop to let
Uncle Hammer drive across the
bridge.
What is they thought he was Mr.
Granger?

24. Papa’s actions the night of the
fire could be described as this.
What is clever?

25. “the bus careened drunkenly into our
trap” is this type of figurative language.
What is personification?

26. “[the bus’s] right wheel in the gully like a
lopsided billy goat on its knees” is an
example of this figurative language.
What is simile?

27. “[the rain] sounded as if thousands of
giant rocks were being hurled against the
earth is this.
What is a simile?

28. The historical event that is the backdrop
of this novel
What is the Great Depression?