SparkNotes: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Review Quiz

Who is the narrator of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry?

(A) Mildred Taylor

(B) Little Man

(C) Cassie Logan

(D) Harlan Granger

Who is the author of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry?

(A) Conrad Wilson.

(B) Maya Angelou

(C) S.E. Hinton

(D) Mildred Taylor

Who are the victims of burnings?

(A) The Logan's

(B) The Avery's

(C) The Berry's

(D) The Granger's

What is the name of the White children's school?

(A) Great Faith

(B) Wallace

(C) Benjamin Harris

(D) Jefferson Davis

What constantly plagues the children on the way to school?

(A) The passing school bus.

(B) The harsh wind.

(C) The swift stream he must ford.

(D) They lack of shoes.

Where are the Logan children prevented to go?

(A) The Wallace store

(B) The Avery home

(C) The Montier plantation

(D) The Great Faith School

What is Mr. Logan's occupation?

(A) Year-round farmer

(B) Blacksmith

(C) Railroad worker

(D) Sharecropper

Which of the Logan children resents L. T. at first?

(A) Cassie

(B) Stacey

(C) Little Man

(D) Christopher-John

Why does Stacey get a whipping from his mother?

(A) She thinks he went to the Wallace store

(B) She thinks he beat up T. J.

(C) She thinks he sabotaged the school bus

(D) She thinks he cheated on a test

How do the children sabotage the school bus?

(A) They fill the engine with sawdust.

(B) They dig out a ditch and fill it with water.

(C) They steal the driver's uniform and replace it with a clown suit.

(D) They cover the seats with mud.

Why does Little Man get a whipping on the first day of school?

(A) He arrives covered in dust from the road.

(B) He is overly proud that he can already read.

(C) He is ashamed of the textbook he is given.

(D) He tells Miss Crocker that his mother is a better teacher.

What does Uncle Hammer drive?

(A) A Silver Packard

(B) A Blue Honeycomb

(C) A car like that of the Wallace's

(D) An old wagon

What happens to Stacey's new coat?

(A) He gets it muddy.

(B) He loses it at the Wallace store.

(C) He tears it on one of the wild nights he spends in Strawberry.

(D) He gives it to T. J.

What is Mr. Jamison's profession?

(A) Lawyer

(B) Mayor

(C) Plantation Owner

(D) Sheriff

Who does Big Ma transfer ownership of the plantation to?

(A) Uncle Hammer

(B) Mama

(C) Harlan Granger

(D) Uncle Hammer and Papa

Why do the children finally break their ties with T. J.?

(A) He helps get Mama fired.

(B) He lights their cotton on fire.

(C) He hangs out with the Simms brothers.

(D) He steals a gun.

What does Uncle Hammer do to help pay off the loan?

(A) He helps out with the farm.

(B) He sells some of the land.

(C) He sells his car.

(D) He sells his home in Chicago.

Where is the shop that the Logan's and 30 other families decide to patronize, in order to boycott the Wallace store?

(A) Washington, D.C.

(B) Strawberry

(C) Vicksburg

(D) Wallacington

When Papa is shot, who is with him?

(A) L. T. and Stacey

(B) He is alone.

(C) L. T.

(D) Only Mildred.

Who starts the fire?

(A) The lightning.

(B) Not us.

(C) Mr. Jamison.

(D) David Logan.

Why does Cassie know that Lillian Jean will not tell her father that Cassie has beat her up?

(A) Lillian Jean is too shy.

(B) Lillian Jean would never hurt Cassie.

(C) Cassie knows Lillian Jean won't admit to having associated with her.

(D) Cassie knows all of Lillian Jean's secrets.

Much of the novel was inspired by

(A) Mildred Taylor's fascination with weather imagery in slave hymns.

(B) Mildred Taylor's own experiences.

(C) stories Mildred Taylor heard from her father.

(D) a newspaper report she found in an archive.

When is the novel set?

(A) During the Civil War

(B) During Reconstruction

(C) During the Depression

(D) During the Civil Rights Movement

When was the novel first published?

(A) 1965

(B) 1976

(D) 1993

Which character has the shortest temper?

(A) L. T.

(B) Big Ma

(C) Uncle Hammer

(D) Harlan Granger