Chapter 1
What effect has the Depression had upon the Logan family?
Why does Papa come home for just one day?
Why doesn’t Stacey feel the same way about Mr. Morrison as the other children in the family?
Why doesn’t Big Ma take Cassie’s advice to move the farm wagon forward where the customers will notice it?
Why doesn’t Uncle Hammer want Stacey to get the coat back from TJ?
Why are the calendars of the white and black school different?
Why does Papa tell the children not to go near the Wallace store?
Why does Stacey accept punishment for cheating when he isn’t guilty?
Why does Mama say “one day we’ll pay? after Uncle Hammer drives them across the bridge? How did this seen make you feel?
What is Little Man’s most treasured Christmas gift? Why do you think he values this gift above all the others?
What is the children’s reaction to the school bus that threatens them as they walk to school?
Why is Cassie convinced that she and her brothers are responsible for the threat of the white mob?
Why does Mama take the children to visit Mr. Berry instead of scolding or whipping them?
How does Mama explain southern bigotry to Cassie?
What does Mr. Jamison predict will be the ultimate result of the store boycott?
Why doesn’t Cassie like her teacher Miss Crocker?
What is Stacey’s plan for revenge against the Jefferson Davis school bus? Why isn’t TJ included in the plan?
Why does Harlan Granger and Big Ma each have strong feelings about the Logan’s land?
Compare Stacey and Cassie’s reactions to Mr. Barnett’s racist insults in the store. Why do they have different reactions?
Why is Mama fired from her teaching job?
Why is Little Man upset about the schoolbooks? Do you think he should have refused the book? Why or why not?
What is Big Ma’s reaction to Little Man’s anger towards the school bus? Why does you think she reacts this way rather than encouraging and supporting Little Man’s anger?
What is Mama’s plan to show black displeasure with the Wallace and their bigotry? Do you think anything will happen to Mama if this plan goes through?
Why do you think Cassie feels that “no day in all my life had ever been as cruel as that one”? How would you feel if you were Cassie and you just had a day like that at Strawberry?
Why is Cassie’s revenge against Lillian Simms so appropriate?