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

2. Why did people call Sully T.V.?
(a) He had a sixth-sense when something was about to happen.
(b) He was a T.V. nut.
(c) He liked the Twilight Zone T.V. show.
(d) He watched T.V. only at night.

3. When Gil and Sully arrived at the Marshall quarters, Sully thought it looked like an episode from what T.V. show?
(a) Bewitched.
(b) The Beverly Hillbillies.
(c) The Perry Mason Show.
(d) The Twilight Show.

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

5. Why do the old men call Mapes into the house?
(a) Charlie wants to confess to the murder and turn himself in.
(b) Mapes told them they had 15 minutes and the old men know their time is up.
(c) Charlie wants to challenge Mapes.
(d) Charlie is afraid of Fix and wants police protection.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of a cap was Chimley wearing?

3. What position did Sully play on the LSU football team?

4. Why was Clatoo dressed in a nice shirt and bow tie?

5. What position did Gil play on the football team?

(see the answer key)

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