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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Chimley tell his wife when he left the house?
(a) To quit bugging him.
(b) To gather all the women and meet him at Mathu's
(c) The find more men and guns and send them along.
(d) To have the fish ready to eat when he returned.

2. Who baked the apple pie?
(a) Lucy, Miss Merle's servant.
(b) Miss Bea.
(c) Janey.
(d) Miss Merle.

3. What kind of a cap was Chimley wearing?
(a) A Dodgers' baseball cap.
(b) A very smart dress hat.
(c) His army hat.
(d) A straw hat.

4. Why did Cherry not like the sight of an empty cane field?
(a) He preferred the site of a cane field about to be plowed.
(b) He was sad that there was no work left for the year.
(c) It made him feel lonely.
(d) It reminded him of how the tractors plowed the fields and hurt the land.

5. What is the "nigger room" in Tee Jack's store?
(a) Where Tee Jack stored cheap liqour that he sold to black customers.
(b) Where black people were hidden during the Civil War.
(c) Where black people could get a drink before desegregation.
(d) Where black people could gamble illegally.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Luke Will ran out of shells, what did Charlie offer?

2. What days did Mat and Chimley fish on the river?

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

4. Why did Mathu look down on all the other old black men?

5. Who is Snookum's grandmother?

(see the answer key)

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