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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who arrived at the end of the chapter?
(a) Fix.
(b) A lynch mob.
(c) Candy's boyfriend.
(d) Mape's backup.

3. What, according to Johnny Paul, could Mapes NOT see?
(a) Who really killed Beau.
(b) All the old men.
(c) The future.
(d) Life in the sugar cane fields before the tractor.

4. What did Mat tell his wife about the shotguns?
(a) He said they were going hunting.
(b) There was trouble at Mathu's house.
(c) He saw some rabbits he wanted to shoot.
(d) There was a lynch mob on the way.

5. How did Mapes know Mathu?
(a) They grew up together.
(b) They had been in a fistfight with each other.
(c) Mathu had worked for Mapes.
(d) They had hunted and fished together.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Coot's all-colored regiment train?

2. How did Candy's parents die?

3. Why hadn't Cherry shot his gun?

4. How many years had Miss Merle known Candy?

5. Why did Chimley not like white people calling him by his nickname?

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