BACKGROUND
a time of great unemployment and financial difficulty in this country
What is the Great Depression?
the protagonist of the book
Who is Cassie Logan?
Cassie's oldest brother
the wealthy white man who wants the Logans' land
Who is Mr. Granger?
the place that the Logan children are forbidden to visit
What is the Wallace store?
the Great Depression began when this event occurred
What is the Stock Market crash?
the point of view that the story is told in
What is first person?
he is not related to the Logans, but he lives with them and thinks of them as family
Who is Mr. Morrison?
the first and last name of Stacey's best friend
Who is TJ Avery?
the Christmas gift that the white boy makes for Stacey
What is a wooden flute?
an arrangement where someone lives on and farms a piece of land and pays a large part of their profits to the landowner
What is sharecropping?
the setting of the book (state)
What is Mississippi?
the name of the Logans' mule
What is Jack?
the first and last name of the white boy who walks to school with the Logans
Who is Jeremy Simms?
what Papa bought the Logan children for Christmas
What are books?
the president who said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
Who is FDR?
the setting of the book (decade)
What is the 1930s?
Mama and Papa's first names
What are Mary and David?
the white girl (first and last name) who gets beat up by Cassie
Who is Lillian Jean Simms?
the number of acres that the Logans owned by the end of the book
What is 400 acres?
the name of Southern laws designed to keep Whites and Blacks separate
What are Jim Crow laws?
the author of the book
Who is Mildred D. Taylor?
Little Man's real name
What is Clayton Chester?
the name of the lawyer who helps the Logans
Who is Mr. Jamison
the kind of car Uncle Hammer drove
What is a Packard?