New Beginnings: Characters in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Question 5 • * SY2025-26 - 1001010-M/J Language Arts 1 Sem 1 CR
Read the excerpt from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.For the month of January I was Lillian Jean's slave and she thoroughly enjoyed it. She even took to waiting for me in the morning with Jeremy so that I could carry her books. When friends of hers walked with us, she bragged about her little colored friend and almost hugged herself with pleasure when I called her "Miz" Lillian Jean.
Answer
A
It shows that there were African American citizens who treated white citizens in unjust and humiliating ways.
B
It shows that white children treated African American children as equals even if white adults in the community did not.
C
It shows that African American children and white children easily developed friendships in spite of racial injustice.
D
It shows that there were white citizens who treated African American citizens in unjust and humiliating ways.
Explanation
Lillian Jean makes the narrator carry her books and expects to be addressed as “Miz,” showing that she uses her whiteness to demand deference. Calling the narrator her “little colored friend” also reflects the degrading racial attitudes behind her behavior. The excerpt shows a white person treating an African American person in an unjust and humiliating way, so D is correct.
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