Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. How do the Logans and their neighbors try to avoid supporting the Wallace store?
They agree to buy only farm equipment from the Wallaces
They open a new store inside the Logan home
They persuade the county to revoke the Wallaces’ business license
They organize purchases on credit from a store in Vicksburg
2. Across the novel, why do Mama and Papa sometimes restrain the children from responding immediately to racist treatment?
They know survival may require choosing the safest time and method of resistance
They believe the children have misunderstood every incident
They want the children to accept the racial system as permanent
They are primarily concerned about losing the children’s schoolbooks
3. Why does Mama’s dismissal from teaching carry more meaning than a simple dispute about classroom materials?
Local white power holders use school authority to retaliate against her teaching and boycott activity
She had secretly planned to leave teaching and work in Vicksburg
The county discovers that Great Faith School has too many teachers
Parents object because she refuses to teach history at all
4. Why is ownership of the Logan land so important to the family?
It represents independence, family continuity, and protection from white landowners’ control
It allows the children to avoid attending school
It gives Papa control over the neighboring plantations
It guarantees that the county cannot collect taxes from them
5. Why is the white school bus’s repeated splashing of the Logan children more than an ordinary school rivalry?
It proves the Logan children chose an unsafe route to school
It begins a competition between two equally funded schools
It shows that Stacey wants to impress the older students
It reflects a racial hierarchy in which the white children can humiliate them without consequences
6. What happens to Papa while he is returning from Vicksburg with supplies for the boycott?
Harlan Granger has him arrested for trespassing
A storm washes his wagon off a bridge
The Wallaces ambush the group, and Papa is injured when the sabotaged wagon overturns
The supplies are confiscated by the owner of the Vicksburg store
7. Cassie initially submits to Lillian Jean’s demand for an apology in Strawberry, then later pretends to befriend her. What best explains Cassie’s strategy?
She uses outward compliance to create an opportunity to resist on her own terms
She hopes Lillian Jean will invite her to attend the white school
She has decided that the conflict was entirely her own fault
She wants to persuade Lillian Jean to support the store boycott
8. How does Jeremy Simms differ most clearly from the rest of his family?
He secretly works with the Logans to organize the boycott
He rejects school and plans to leave Mississippi with T.J.
He repeatedly seeks friendship with the Logan children despite his family’s racism
He helps Cassie gain permission to enter the Barnett store
9. At the end, Cassie grieves for both T.J. and the land. What connection does this pairing emphasize?
T.J. had planned to purchase the Logan farm from Harlan Granger
The threats against Black lives and Black land are intertwined within the same unjust system
Cassie believes losing the harvest matters more than T.J.’s fate
The fire has made the land permanently unusable
10. Why does Papa set fire to part of the cotton field during the climactic confrontation?
He intends to stop Harlan Granger from harvesting the cotton
He wants to destroy evidence connecting Stacey to the robbery
The emergency diverts the mob threatening T.J. and forces the community to fight the fire
He hopes the fire will force the Wallace store to close permanently
11. Where and when is most of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry set?
Urban Georgia during Reconstruction
Rural Mississippi during the Great Depression
Rural Alabama during World War II
Urban Tennessee during the Harlem Renaissance
12. What role does Mr. Morrison take on after joining the Logan household?
He becomes the children’s teacher at Great Faith School
He serves as Harlan Granger’s lawyer in the land dispute
He manages the Wallace store during the boycott
He works on the farm and helps protect the family
13. Little Man objects to the schoolbooks issued to the Black students. What does the books’ condition and ownership record reveal?
The county expects families to purchase replacements themselves
Black students receive discarded materials after white students have used them
The school is preparing to close because of falling enrollment
The books were damaged during transportation to the school
14. What happens after Uncle Hammer gives Stacey a new coat?
Mama returns the coat because it is too expensive
Jeremy damages the coat while visiting the Logan farm
T.J. mocks the coat until Stacey gives it to him
Stacey trades the coat for schoolbooks in Strawberry
15. How do R.W. and Melvin Simms contribute to T.J.’s crisis near the end of the novel?
They report him for helping organize the Wallace store boycott
They involve him in the Barnett store robbery and abandon him when the crime turns violent
They persuade him to run away and then alert the police
They accuse him of stealing a school examination from Mama
16. Which member of the Logan family narrates the novel?
Stacey Logan
Christopher-John Logan
Little Man Logan
Cassie Logan