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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Tessie?
(a) Chimley's wife.
(b) Jacob's mother.
(c) Jacob's sister.
(d) A white woman who claimed she was raped by Jacob.

2. Where did Chimley keep his number five shells?
(a) In a coffee can.
(b) In a cigar box.
(c) Under the house.
(d) In a safe.

3. What phrase does Charlie keep saying over and over again?
(a) I need a tractor to work in the fields.
(b) I need a better house.
(c) I'm a man.
(d) I killed Beau.

4. Where did the group of old men walk to?
(a) Back to Dirty Red's house.
(b) To the cane fields.
(c) The black graveyard.
(d) To the bank of the river.

5. What action did Gil want his father to take about the death of his brother, Beau?
(a) Gil wanted to form a lynch mob and pick up Mathu.
(b) Gil wanted his father, Fix, to talk to Mathu.
(c) Gil wanted Sully to talk to Mathu.
(d) Gil wanted to let the police arrest the suspect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Oliver?

2. Mapes asked his deputy to call someone back in town. Who?

3. Why did Janey keep looking down toward the highway?

4. Who was sitting on the bed crying?

5. Janey calls two people on the phone. Who are they?

(see the answer key)

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