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Question - 100 pts.
The name of the main
character and narrator of the
story
Question?
Answer - 100 pts.
Cassie Logan
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Question - 200 pts.
Oldest relative of the Logan
family.
Question?
Answer - 200 pts.
Big Ma
Back
Question - 300 pts.
Walks to school with the
Logan children. Does not
particularly like or respect his
older siblings.
Question?
Answer - 300 pts.
Jeremy Simms
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Question - 400 pts.
What is the full name of
Little Man?
Question?
Answer - 400 pts.
Clayton Chester
Logan
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Question - 500 pts.
Who is described as “tawnycolored and sinewy with
delicate features in a strongjawed face”?
Question?
Answer - 500 pts.
Mama
Back
Question - 100 pts.
“Look out there, Cassie girl. All that
belongs to you. You ain’t never had to
live on nobody’s place but your own and
long as I live and the family survives,
you’ll never have to .”
Question?
Answer - 100 pts.
Papa
Back
Question – 200 points
“If you want something and it’s a good
thing and you got it in the right way, you
better hang onto it and don’t let nobody
talk you out of it. You care what a lot of
useless people say ‘bout you, you ll
never get nowhere . . .”
Question?
Answer - 200 pts.
Uncle Hammer
Back
Question - 300 pts.
“Now how could he know what
it says? He can’t read.”
Question?
Answer - 300 pts.
Miss Crocker
Back
Question - 400 pts.
“There’s other things a body needs
protectin’ from more than a
rattlesnake…I get me that gun and
ain’t nobody gonna mess with me.
I wouldn’t need nobody.”
Question?
Answer - 400 pts.
T.J.
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Question - 500 pts.
“I don’t rightly know, but ya’ll
knows how they is. Anytime
they thinks we stepping out of
our place, they feels like they
gotta stop us. You know what
some of them done to the
Berry’s.”
Question?
Answer - 500 pts.
Mr. Avery
Back
Question - 100 pts.
How many acres of land do
the Logan’s have?
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Answer - 100 pts.
400 acres
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Question - 200 pts.
After the bus incident, why did
Mama have to separate the
children while they were doing
their homework?
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Answer - 200 pts.
The children kept laughing
and couldn’t get their work
done.
Back
Question - 300 pts.
Why did Stacey go to the
Wallace store when he was
told not to?
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Answer – 300 pts.
Stacey wanted to fight T.J.
for making it look like
Stacey was cheating on the
test.
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Question - 400 pts.
Because of the boycott, where
will the Logans and other
black families now go to get
their goods?
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Answer – 400 pts.
Vicksburg
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Question - 500 pts.
What is the full name of the
man who wants to buy the
land from the Logans?
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Answer - 500 pts.
Mr. Harlan Granger
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Question - 100 pts
This phrase describes how
white and black people are
forced apart but in
supposedly equivalent
facilities.
Question?
Answer – 100 pts.
Separate but Equal
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Question - 200 pts.
Mama saying, “But one day
we’ll have to pay for it.
Believe me, one day, we’ll
pay,” is an example of what
literary device?
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Answer - 200 pts.
Foreshadow
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Question - 300 pts.
Name the term for the form of
protest in which people do
not financially contribute to
a specific place
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Answer - 300 pts.
Boycott
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Question - 400 pts.
“Family is an important source
of one’s inner strength” is an
example of?
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Answer - 400 pts.
Theme
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Question - 500 pts.
Name of the laws that
prevented black and white
people from interacting. Ex/
A white man and black
woman cannot get married.
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Answer - 500 pts.
Jim Crow Laws
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Question - 100 pts.
…the sweat was popping off
his skin like oil on water…
What literary term is this an
example of?
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Answer - 100 pts.
Simile
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Question - 200 pts.
What is T.J’s younger
brother’s name?
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Answer - 200 pts.
Claud
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Question - 300 pts.
Who is Jason?
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Answer - 300 pts.
Jason is the Logan’s
dog.
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Question - 400 pts.
What is the full name of the
author of Roll of Thunder,
Hear My Cry?
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Answer - 400 pts.
Mildred D. Taylor
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Question - 500 pts.
What kind of car does Uncle
Hammer drive?
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Answer - 500 pts.
A Silver Packard
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Character Quotable
Essay
Fun!
Grab
Bag
Question - 200 pts.
Who was fired from his job on
the railroad for fighting with a
white man.
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Answer - 200 pts.
Mr. Morrison
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Question - 400 pts
Who owns a slightly older
model of Uncle Hammer’s car?
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Answer - 400 pts.
Harlan Granger
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Question – 600 pts.
What is the name of the white
bus driver?
Question?
Answer - 600 pts.
Mr. Grimes
Back
Question - 800 pts.
What is the name of the white
lawyer who does not support
the ways of fellow whites such
as the Wallaces?
Question?
Answer - 800 pts.
Mr. Jamison
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Question - 1000 pts.
Who was responsible for
saving T.J. from hanging and
why?
Question?
Answer - 1000 pts.
Papa saved T.J. by
starting the fire.
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Question - 200 pts.
“You bumped into me, now
apologize!”
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Answer - 200 pts.
Lillian Jean Simms
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Question - 400 pts
“This thing’s been coming a
long time …and T.J. just
happened to be the one
foolish enough to trigger it.”
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Answer - 400 pts.
Papa
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Question – 600 pts.
“You being white, you can just
‘bout plan on anything you
want. But I tell you this one
thing: you plan on getting this
land, you’re planning on the
wrong thing.”
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Answer - 600 pts.
Papa
Back
Question - 800 pts.
“Don’t let ‘em hurt my baby no
more! Kill me, Lord, but not
my child!”
Question?
Answer - 800 pts.
Mrs. Avery
(T.J.’s mother)
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Question - 1000 pts.
“Funny thing. That fire come
up from that lightning and
struck one of those fence
posts, I reckon, and sparked
that cotton. Must’ve burned a
good quarter…Ya’ll lucky it
ain’t headed this way.”
Question?
Answer - 1000 pts.
Jeremy Simms
Back
Question - 200 pts.
What distracted the night men
from hanging T.J.?
Question?
Answer - 200 pts.
They saw the fire.
Back
Question - 400 pts
How did Uncle Hammer help
out when the Logans needed
money?
Question?
Answer - 400 pts.
He sold his Packard to
raise money for the
mortgage.
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Question – 600 pts.
Since Mama’s firing, T.J.
hasn’t been showing up at
school. Where does he hang
out during school hours?
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Answer - 600 pts.
T.J. hangs out at the
Wallace store.
Back
Question - 800 pts.
Who stole the watermelons
from Mr. Ellis?
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Answer - 800 pts.
Papa and
Uncle Hammer
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Question - 1000 pts.
What is the name of the
school that the Logan children
attend?
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Answer - 1000 pts.
Great Faith Elementary
and Secondary School
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Question - 200 pts.
What is the name of the
sentence that states the
main argument of an essay?
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Answer - 200 pts.
Thesis
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Question - 400 pts
What sentence should start
the conclusion paragraph?
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Answer - 400 pts.
Restatement of the
Thesis
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Question – 600 pts.
What do we call the facts from
the novels that go in the
body paragraphs?
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Answer - 600 pts.
Concrete Details
Or
Evidence
Back
Question - 800 pts.
What do we call the writing
that explains the
significance of your quotes
and how they relate to the
thesis?
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Answer - 800 pts.
Commentary
Or
Explanation
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Question - 1000 pts.
What goes at the very start of
the body paragraph?
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Answer - 1000 pts.
Topic Sentence
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Question - 200 pts.
“…attempting to keep the rusty
dust from swelling and drifting
back upon his shiny black shoes
and the cuffs of his corduroy pants
by lifting each foot high before
settling it down gently again…”
Who does this describe?
Question?
Answer - 200 pts.
Little Man
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Question - 400 pts
…the rain had merely
splotched the dust, which
seemed to be rejoicing in its
own resiliency and laughing at
the heavy drops thudding
against it… What literary term
is this an example of?
Question?
Answer - 400 pts.
Personification
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Question – 600 pts.
What is the name of the pond
that sits on the Logan
property?
Question?
Answer - 600 pts.
Caroline Pond
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Question - 800 pts.
…the headlights appeared
suddenly, coming fast like cat
eyes in the night… What
literary term is this an example
of?
Question?
Answer - 800 pts.
Simile
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Question - 1000 pts.
How many children did Big Ma
give birth to?
Question?
Answer - 1000 pts.
6 children, but only
Papa and Uncle Hammer
survived
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Final Jeopardy Category:
An Important Conversation
Final Jeopardy Question:
Who is Papa speaking to
when he says, “Still, I
want these children to
know we tried, and what
we can’t do now, maybe
one day they will.”?
Final Jeopardy Answer:
Mr. Jamison
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