Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Ch. 8

What did Lillian Jean mean when she said Cassie had "finally learned the way of things"?

• The order of things between whites and blacks

• Younger kids should carry older kids' books

• That they were meant to be friends

• The best way to get home from school.

What was Cassies solution to T.J.'s problem that he needed to "figure out somethin'" for?

• to get the questions from Stacey

• to ask Mama for advice

• to cheat

• to study

In what way did Papa say Cassie was like Uncle Hammer?

• her sense of humour

• her temper

• her pride

• her appearance

What very important decision did Papa ask Cassie to think about?

• If Cassie should do whatever Lillian Jean said.

• If Mr. Simms deserved a good thrashing.

• If she could respect herself.

• If Lillian Jean was worth getting into trouble for.

What secrets did Lillian Jean NOT tell Cassie?

• Which boy she liked.

• Her close and not so close friends' secrets.

• Which girls hated Cassie.

• Her brothers' romantic adventures.

What can we understand from dialogue in the story that T.J. said Mrs. Logan "did on purpose" ?

• Kicked him out of school.

• Failed him on his history exam.

• Whipped him for cheating.

• Humiliated him in front of the class.

Why did Mrs. Logan get fired from her teaching job?

• T.J. told Mr. Granger she had whipped him.

• T.J. told Mr. Kaleb she was a bad teacher when he was at the Wallace's store.

• Mr. Kaleb's son had failed his history exam.

• Her students told on her because she was teaching about slavery.

Why did Cassie carry Miz Lillian Jean's books and make friends with her, but then beat her up in the end?

• To prove to everyone that she wasn't going to respect anyone.

• Because she wanted to prove that even at 9 years old she was stronger than Lillian Jean.

• To force her to apologize for what happened in Strawberry.

• To get revenge for Mr. Simms knocking her into the street.

What did Cassie say she would do if Lillian Jean ever told anyone that she had beat her up?

• She would tell the whole school all of her secrets.

• She would tell the whole school she was weak.

• She would pull her beautiful hair out.

• She would never carry her books for her again.

What did T.J. say when he finally realized he didn't have the Logan children as friends anymore?

• He was really upset and went home crying.

• They would start to miss him and come back to him asking to be friends again.

• He didn't need them because he still had lots of other friends at school.

• He was tired of them anyway and had better friends who were white.