Chapter One:

 

Questions

 

  1. What is the name of the defendant?

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  2. On what day is the trial held?

    3.  

  3. For what is he on trial?

    4.  

  4. On what day is sentencing held?

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  5. What is the verdict?

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  6. What is the sentence?

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  7. Contrast the portrait that is painted of Jefferson. How does the prosecution present him? How does the defense present him?

 

 

Quotes

 

  1. "I was not there, yet I was there." – page 3

    2.  

  2. "A fool does what others tell him to do." – page 7

 

 

Chapter Two:

 

Questions

 

  1. Who is the narrator?

    2.  

  2. What is his occupation?

    3.  

  3. Who are the two women?

    4.  

  4. What do they want Grant to do?

    5.  

  5. Why do they need permission from the Sheriff for what they want Grant to do?

    6.  

  6. Why does Grant say that Jefferson is already dead?

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  7. Why does Grant not want to go to Mr. Henri’s house?

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  8. What color is Henri?

    9.  

  9. What color is the narrator?

 

 

Quotes

 

  1. "I don’t want them to kill no hog," she said. "I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet." – page 13

    2.  

  2. "He don’t have to," Miss Emma said again. – page 14

 

 

Chapter Three:

 

Questions

 

  1. What is symbolic about going through the back door?

    2.  

  2. What does Miss Emma ask Mr. Henri to do?

 

 

Quotes

 

  1. "I had nothing to do all that day but serve." – page 17

    2.  

  2. "He don’t have to go," Miss Emma said for about the hundredth time. – page 17

    3.  

  3. "I was too educated for Henri Pichot." – page 21

    4.  

  4. "Somebody got to do something for me one time ‘fore I close my eyes." – page 22