Night on Fire

Who did NOT talk about the tragic event the next day at school?

Where did Mr. Sims work?

Who is the author of Night on Fire?

How many siblings does Billie have?

Who does Martin Luther King Jr. talk to on the phone in the basement of the church?

Where does Mr. McCall work?

Who brought out a bucket of water and Dixie cups and fed sips of water to victims of the event?

What gesture does Billie do to comfort Jarmaine while they are being interrogated at the bus station?

Where was Jarmaine’s dream place?

Who was the head of Birmingham police that arrested Freedom Riders who had going to Birmingham?

Dr. King called Attorney Gen. Robert Kennedy to tell him the Marshals did not help. In turn, who came in next to help?

What information does Jarmaine reveal about her great-great-grandmother to Billie?

Who finally stepped in to intervene when Billie and Jarmaine were being bombarded and told to move?

What do Billie and Jarmaine first hear when they approach First Baptist Church?

Who was participating in the spelling bee?

Who showed up at the church FIRST to get the outside mob under control?

On the way to Montgomery, what city do Billie and Jarmaine stop in?

What tragic event happened in Anniston on Mother’s Day?

What location do Billie and Jarmaine mix up when they arrived in Montgomery?

When Billie went over to her house, Jarmaine said, “There are two kinds of people in the world- the ___ and the ___.” 

What was Grant’s favorite hobbie?

Who first recognized Billie when she yelled down at the crowd?

     Who is the protagonist in the novel?

How did Grant and Mr. McCall know Jarmaine?

What high school did Billie attend?

Where is the novel’s setting?

What picture does Grant develop and give to Billie?

Who came up to the microphone and interrupted the crowd at the end of the spelling bee, demanding Bradley get a chance

What does Billie get Mama for Mother’s Day?

“There won’t be a next time. Leave and don’t come back.” Who said this to Bradley?

What did Billie like to do once Daddy arrived home each day?

Who could be considered an antagonist in the novel?

After the mob was under control, Billie and Jarmaine found their families. What did they do before finally leaving?

What movement was occurring during this time in American history?

The KKK threatened to burn down the hospital for treating injured Freedom Riders.

Where did Jarmaine and Billie end up going after another bus riot had occurred, to attend a church meeting?

What year was the novel set in?

What does Billie reply, when they are asked to move?

Where are Grant and his family from?

“I had spent my life watching. When you watch, you notice. You think. You get restless. I wanted to do something.”

Who was supposed to be in attendance at the First Baptist church meeting? Choose 2

Why does Gus grab the girls and bring them to the floor to cover them, when the meeting starts?

What does Billie tell Jarmaine her dream is to be?

  How do Grant and Billie know one another?

While waiting for the bus to arrive, where do Billie and Jarmaine wait?

 1.      Fill in the blank.   Billie wanted Lavender to be her __________.

What did Billie buy each week with her allowance?

Where are the girls led to in the church, to lie down before the meeting?

Fill in the blank. “Lavender seemed _________ when daddy was around.”

Who told Dr. King that the Freedom Rides must continue, when he suggested a “cooling-off” period?

Where did Mrs. Sims work?

What was the mascot at both the white and black high schools?

What high school did Jarmaine and Bradley attend?

Lavender had been the Sims’ maid for the past…

Billie and Jarmaine decided to take the bus to Montgomery to attend the church meeting. Who do they pass when leaving?

Who showed up to the church and stood outside? Select ALL that apply.

Who does Billie have a heart to heart conversation with at the end of the book- discussing injustice and prejudice?

What is the author’s purpose of this novel?

Who stepped in to help Bradley after he knocked over cans in the grocery store. ?

 What was the name of the group of men who gossiped at Forsyth’s grocery store each day?

Who do the girls first meet at the church?

Why did Grant and Larry Crabtree get into an altercation after the spelling bee, the next day at school?

What did Lavender tell Billie about on the way to purchase steak from Forsyth’s grocery?

“Why not? It’s a free country?”  Which character said this in response the Bradley situation in Forsyth’s Grocery?

Why does the security guard and station manager approach Billie and Jarmaine?

How long did Gus say she played the organ for?

“You’re Billie Sims. You’re a tomboy, and your next-door neighbor is Grant McCall…you read the newspaper...."

Jarmaine and Billie decide to enter the bus station…

Who was Billie shocked to see at this tragic event?

What was Jarmaine scared of that she thinks might have happened to the riders?

What genre is this novel?

What did Grant buy each week with his allowance?