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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Butch try to sell the pictures to that he stole from the lab where he worked?
(a) A pawnshop.
(b) To a trucker.
(c) To a magazine.
(d) To a Club.

2. What was the rule since the law was not trusted?
(a) Having fun.
(b) Silence.
(c) Honor.
(d) Money.

3. Why did Butch leave the second institution?
(a) His father took him away.
(b) He was expelled.
(c) He fled.
(d) The school closed.

4. Where did the violence in the county originate from according to Butterfield?
(a) Poor economic conditions.
(b) Old blood feuds between families and clans.
(c) The absence of organized government.
(d) The availability of guns.

5. What was the name of Willie Bosket's great, great grandfather?
(a) Aaron Bosket.
(b) Morgan Bosket.
(c) Lusius Bosket.
(d) Robert Bosket.

6. When did Aaron marry?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1881.

7. Where did Frances Bosket move to at the start of Part II, Chapter 5?
(a) Arlington.
(b) Augusta.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Birmingham.

8. What was Pud sentenced to for the robberies he committed?
(a) Four years of hard labor.
(b) Three years of hard labor.
(c) One year of hard labor.
(d) Two years of hard labor.

9. Why did people back away from James?
(a) He had a knife.
(b) He wore a gang tatoo.
(c) He was a Bosket.
(d) He was an African American.

10. Why did the price of the crops in South Carolina fall in the late 1890's?
(a) South Carolina joined the economy.
(b) California started its agricultural program.
(c) Texas had better crops.
(d) Mexico started to export to the United States.

11. What is an integral part of the history of the county according to Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) Plantations.
(b) Rhum.
(c) Free elections.
(d) Former slaves.

12. When did Frances Bosket leave South Carolina?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1932.

13. Where did Willie James and his other grandmother, Cora Mae Jones, go when he was 8?
(a) Houston.
(b) Washington.
(c) Orlando.
(d) New York.

14. Why did slavery add to the culture of violence?
(a) Psychological help for the slave was non-existant.
(b) Violence was needed to enforce bondage.
(c) Violence was all they knew.
(d) Slaves were not paid.

15. Why did James start carrying a knife?
(a) For self-defense.
(b) He wanted to be a "bad man" like his father.
(c) He wanted to protect his mom.
(d) He used it to carve wood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Willie James do after he started to attend school?

2. When was Willie James born?

3. What did the whites call the trouble-making black youth of the start of the 20th century?

4. What was the name of the wrestling the settlers of the county often engaged in?

5. Why did the young slave Thomas Bauskett offered his son take the name of Bauskett?

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