7^th Grade English Name:_______________________

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor

Chapters 4-6 Review

At the beginning of Chapter 4, Mama is worried about the children: “Here it is Saturday morning and they’re _______________________________________________.” We know that the reason they’re so quiet is because _________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________. Their friend T.J. reassures them, however, that

the night riders had actually ridden down to Sam Tatum’s place and ________________________________

________________________ him. Of the Logan children, only Stacey doesn’t really seem to like having Mr. Morrison around. “Don’t need him here,” he says. “____________________________________________

_____________________________________________.” On the way to school one day, T.J. shows Stacey a piece of paper. It’s a __________________________________________, and Stacey takes the paper and __________________________________________________. After school that day, Cassie and the others learn that Stacey was ________________________ in front of everybody by his mother, the teacher, because “She caught him ________________________________________________________________.” T.J. was at fault, but “ole T.J. just _____________________________________________________________________

______________________.” That is what brings Stacey, Cassie, and the others to the one place their mother forbid them to go: _____________________________________. Standing around inside the store are the owner, _____________________________, and _____________________’s older brothers, ____________

and ______________________. In the back is a kind of “juke joint” or drinking/dancing place for the poor local black people. There is a big fist-fight between __________ and ____________________, but it’s broken up very suddenly when ___________________________ appears. He’s angry, but he says, “I ain’t gonna tell” their mama…and that makes Cassie happy, until he says, “’Cause I’m _______________________________

________________________________________________.” Cassie, Christopher-John, and Little Man think Stacey is crazy when he says, “_______________________________________________________.” The rest of the chapter is mainly a tale of the land: The original Logan to purchase the Logan land was ___________________________, who bought 200 acres from ____________________________________. Later, he bought another 200 acres from ______________________________________ in 1918. Now, ____________________________________ is pestering Big Ma about selling land to him. But Big Ma says angrily, “He don’t know nothin’ _____________________________________________________________

___________________________________________!” When Mama finds out the kids went to _________

_______________________________, she is angry, but doesn’t give them a whipping. That weekend, she drives them for two hours to the home of _________________________________. “A still form lay there staring at us with glittering eyes. ____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________.” On the way home, Mama stops at many black homes, trying to convince people not to _______________________

___________________________________________________________________________________.

Chapter 5 is about a trip to the small town of ___________________________ to sell butter, milk, and eggs. The first sign of something wrong for Cassie is that their selling spot is ________________________

_____________________________________________, while the white farm wagons and pickups are ______________________________________________________________________________________. Later, they stop at the offices of __________________________________ where Big Ma has some business. TJ, Stacey, and Cassie enter the main store, called the __________________________________. Cassie gets angry because ________________________________________________________________. But later, on the street, she gets really angry when she bumps into _________________________________ and is told to ____________________________, and then to _____________________________________. Cassie is furious when _____________________________ shoves Cassie __________________________. Cassie is humiliated further when Big Ma insists that she say, “____________________________________

________________________________________________.” She runs crying. “No day in all my life _________________________________________________________________________.”

Chapter 6 finds Cassie still angry, and the kids back at home, where they find _________________

_____________________________ in the garage: Uncle Hammer has come to visit. When Uncle Hammer learns what happened to Cassie in town that day, “he stood slowly, _________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________.” Big Ma says, “Let it be, son!...That child ain’t hurt.” And Uncle Hammer replies: “____________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________.” Later, Mama has a talk with Cassie. “Baby, you had to grow up a little today…It happened and you have to accept the fact that _______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________.” When she tells her that black and white both have meaning, she says “Everybody on this earth ____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________.” And Mr. Simms is “one of those people who has to believe _______________________________________

_______________________________________________________________.” “White people may demand our respect,” says Mama, “but what we give them is ____________________________________.” The next morning, the family gets a treat. They’re going to church in ______________________________________

____________________________. Uncle Hammer gives Stacey an early Christmas present: a new ___________________. On the way home, the family takes a ride, and at Soldiers Bridge, a truck full of Wallaces backs away to let __________________________________________________, thinking that ________________________________________________________. At the other end of the bridge, Uncle Hammer ___________________________________________ at the Wallaces as he passes by. Mama tells him that “one day we’ll have to pay for it. Believe me…one day we’ll pay.”