This teacher was not well liked by the Logan children.
Who is Ms. Crocker?
100
Chapter 5 starts out with the Logans and T.J. making a trip to the market in this town.
What is Strawberry?
100
Great news! This uncle shows up with a new car just like Mr. Granger!
Who is Uncle Hammer?
100
Cassie is being suspiciously nice to this character. She offers to carry her books to school for her.
Who is Lillian-Jean?
100
Bad news: this type of payment is now due immediately and is payable in full. In other words: the Logans owe a lot a of money.
What is the mortgage?
200
This is name of the elementary school that the Logan children attended.
What is Great Faith Elementary School?
200
These men have been causing terror in the area, and Cassie is especially scarred of them.
Who are the "night men?"
200
Cassie gets upset and tells Uncle Hammer about how this character helped others before them at the mercantile.
Who is Mr. Barnett?
200
A few white men show up to school one day to observe Mama give a history lesson about this topic.
What is slavery?
200
T.J. is sad that the Logans still don't like him. R.W. tries to cheer him up by asking him if he still wants this (presumably the same one he admired at Mr. Barnett's store in Strawberry).
What is the pearl-handled pistol?
300
The state that the Logans live in.
What is Mississippi?
300
Stacey thinks that this character is taking his place as "man of the house" while Papa is away.
Who is Mr. Morrison?
300
This character tells Cassie that, "Everybody born on this earth is something and nobody, no matter what color, is better than anybody else"
Who is Mama?
300
The Logan kids think that this character told the Wallaces that Mrs. Logan destroyed school property by putting brown paper over the books with the racist language.
Who is T.J.?
300
While the white men were brutally beating up T.J., someone in the crowd shouts that they should also "take care of" these two characters at the same time. And hey, they just so happen to have three ropes with them.
Who are Mr. Morrison and Papa?
400
Cassie learns that this black man, who had been burned, has died.
Who is John Henry Berry?
400
These two characters won't be invited to help out with the plan of sabotaging the bus, since they wouldn't be able to keep their mouths shut about it.
Who are T.J. and Claude Avery?
400
On Christmas morning, the Logan children each receive one of these from Mama.
What is a book?
400
This boy is sad that he won't see the Logan kids for a while, since their school lets out in March, while the white kids' school goes until mid-May.
Who is Jeremy Simms?
400
These two characters leave the Logan children at the house in order to go put out the burning cotton fields.
Who are Big Ma and Mama?
500
The name of the county that the story takes place in. (Hint: there is a city in Washington with the same name)
What is Spokane County?
500
On the way to school one day, T.J. reveals that he has a plan to cheat on this type of test at school.
What is the history test?
500
Mr. Jamison shows up with papers and once the papers are signed, the land will now be in Papa and Uncle Hammer's names, and not this character's.
Who is Big Ma?
500
And when Papa, Mr. Morrison and Stacey don't return as scheduled from this town, everyone is super worried.
What is Vicksburg?
500
Mr. Jamison drives up and tells Papa that he's just come from Strawberry, and has news for the Averys.
Bad news: this character has died because of his injuries.