Q 01/05

In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, how does Papa secretly stop the mob lynching T.J. Avery?

A) Fires his shotgun overhead

B) Sets his own cotton afire

C) Fetches the county sheriff

D) Offers the mob his farm

Answer · why

B) Sets his own cotton afire

Papa sets his own cotton afire, so the men drop T.J. to save the neighboring plantation's trees. A quarter of the Logan crop burns, and Cassie works o...

Q 02/05

In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, what does Uncle Hammer sell so the Logans can pay off the bank?

A) His Packard

B) His gold watch

C) His house up North

D) His share of the farm

Answer · why

A) His Packard

His Packard goes because the bank suddenly demands the whole loan, under pressure from white neighbors angry about the boycott. He turns up on foot wi...

Q 03/05

In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, which French novelist does Papa tell his children was a Black man?

A) Victor Hugo

B) Jules Verne

C) Alexandre Dumas

D) Gustave Flaubert

Answer · why

C) Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas was the grandson of an enslaved African woman in what is now Haiti. Cassie and Stacey unwrap his adventure novels on Christmas morning...

Q 04/05

In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, how do the Logan children get even with the school bus that splashes them?

A) Scatter nails

B) Loosen a wheel

C) Fell a tree

D) Dig a ditch

Answer · why

D) Dig a ditch

They dig a ditch across the road at lunchtime, and an afternoon of rain widens it into a pond that breaks the bus's axle. The white pupils walk for ab...

Q 05/05

In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, T.J. wins Stacey's new coat by saying it makes him look like what?

A) A preacher

B) A scarecrow

C) An undertaker

D) A schoolmarm

Answer · why

A) A preacher

A preacher is the jibe that works, because the coat from Uncle Hammer is too big for Stacey. Uncle Hammer then lets T.J. keep it for good, to teach hi...