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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was sitting in Fix's lap?
(a) Fix's wife.
(b) Fix's son.
(c) Beau's wife.
(d) Beau's son.

2. Who gets shot and cannot move from his position?
(a) Mapes.
(b) Lou Dimes.
(c) Candy.
(d) Luke Will.

3. What did Candy do when she waved goodbye to the old men?
(a) She laughed.
(b) She squeezed Lou's hand.
(c) She shook each man's hand.
(d) She cried.

4. What did Mathu ask Snookum to get from the house when the sandwiches came?
(a) Beer.
(b) Ice water.
(c) Plates and forks.
(d) More guns.

5. What does Tee Jack do to calm Luke Will and his friends?
(a) Tee Jack gives Luke Will and his boys liquor for free.
(b) Tee Jack reminds Luke Will that his store/bar is still segregated.
(c) Tee Jack tell the professor to shut up.
(d) Tee Jack offers to help with the lynching.

6. Who shows up from the back of the house at the end of the chapter?
(a) Luke Will.
(b) Charlie Biggs.
(c) Lou Dimes.
(d) Fix.

7. Who shot Mapes?
(a) The deputy.
(b) One of Luke Will's lynch mob.
(c) Lou Dimes.
(d) One of the old black men.

8. Who agreed with Gil?
(a) Luke Will.
(b) His brother Jean.
(c) His brother Claude.
(d) Fix.

9. How did Candy's mother and father die?
(a) Working in the fields.
(b) In a plane crash.
(c) In a car wreck.
(d) Of natural causes.

10. During the trial, what was the racial makeup of the observing crowd?
(a) All white as blacks were not allowed in the courtroom.
(b) All black.
(c) About half black and half white.
(d) All white on the main floor and a few blacks in the balcony.

11. The narrater of this chapter is on which side of the shoot-out?
(a) Charlie is on his own side.
(b) Snookum is on Candy's side.
(c) Mapes is not on anyone's side, but is now defending himself against Luke Will's gang.
(d) Sharp is on Luke Will's side.

12. Why were the old black men going to the back of the house one at a time?
(a) To use the outhouse.
(b) To get some food.
(c) To see if Charlie was there.
(d) To check on Mathu.

13. What do all the old black men, and women and children do after Charlie dies?
(a) They all touch him as a sign of honor.
(b) They cover him with a bedspread and pray.
(c) They kill Luke Will and his gang.
(d) They blame Mathu for the death of Charlie.

14. What does Snookum say that almost gives away Candy's entire plan?
(a) Snookum says he wants another sandwich because Candy didn't give him anything to run and get everybody.
(b) Snookum says Gram Mon wants a second sandwich because she was cooking dinner when someone shot Beau.
(c) Snookum says that Candy promised him sandwiches if he would keep his mouth shut.
(d) Snookum says he wants some ice water or he will tell Mapes who shot Beau.

15. Where did Snookum hide during the shoot-out?
(a) He ran out the kitchen door and into the outhouse.
(b) He hid next to Gram Mon.
(c) He hid in the kitchen.
(d) He crawled under the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was different about the way Yank hollered?

2. The old men want to talk inside the house alone. They do not want Candy in the house with them. Candy gets very angry. What does Mapes say is Candy's motivation?

3. What phrase does Charlie keep saying over and over again?

4. What happens when Charlie and Mapes go out the front door?

5. Who is the first person to get shot in the shoot-out?

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