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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was so important about the "Salt and Pepper" football duo?
(a) It would be the first time that a black and white boy played in the same backfield in the Deep South.
(b) Because Salt was Cajun.
(c) LSU had a losing season and needed to use Salt and Pepper in the big game the next day.
(d) Salt and Pepper hated each other but played football well together.

2. Why is Gil upset with Mapes, the sheriff?
(a) Gil thinks Mapes should arrest Candy.
(b) Gil thinks Mapes should have moved the body by now.
(c) Gil can't believe that there have been no arrests made.
(d) Gil thinks Mapes is stalling to wait until Fix and the lynch mob arrive.

3. Why was Clatoo dressed in a nice shirt and bow tie?
(a) He sold vegetables out of his truck and always wanted to remind people that he was a businessman.
(b) He was returning from work.
(c) He had just returned from church with Reverend Jameson.
(d) He had just been to a funeral.

4. What happened to Oliver?
(a) He died in a car wreck.
(b) He died when a lynch mob killed him.
(c) He died in a hospital when the doctors wouldn't treat a black man.
(d) He died when a group of white men ran him into the river.

5. What position did Gil play on the football team?
(a) Halfback.
(b) Kicker.
(c) Fullback.
(d) Quarterback.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sully drive Gil?

2. Why did people call Sully T.V.?

3. When Gil arrived at the scene of the crime, how long had his brother been dead?

4. Why did Chimley not like white people calling him by his nickname?

5. On their way out of town, what happened to Gil and Sully?

(see the answer key)

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