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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kinds of flowers did Jack Toussaint grow?
(a) Lillies.
(b) Sunflowers.
(c) Four-o'clocks.
(d) Roses.

2. When Ella tried to call the sheriff, what did Mat do?
(a) He left with Clatoo in the truck.
(b) He threw a fish at Ella's head.
(c) He ripped the phone out of the wall.
(d) He had Chimley talk to his wife.

3. What was Beulah angry about?
(a) She thought that everyone was going to get killed that day.
(b) Everyone was hungry and needed food.
(c) That all the old black men had guns.
(d) The way black women had been treated through the years.

4. What was Yank's job before tractors came to the sugar can fields?
(a) Yank broke horses.
(b) Yank was a professional fisherman.
(c) Yank was the house servant at the Marshall house.
(d) Yank cut sugar cane.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Clatoo do with the shoe box?

2. Why did Mat feel good about what they were doing?

3. What did Cherry Bello own?

4. What, according to Johnny Paul, could Mapes NOT see?

5. What happened when Mat returned home with his fish?

(see the answer key)

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