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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did each old black man do and say?
(a) Each man introduced himself to Mathu.
(b) Each man slapped Mathu.
(c) Each man fired his gun a second time.
(d) Each man confessed to the murder.

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

3. Who was sitting on the bed crying?
(a) Fix.
(b) Beau's son.
(c) Beau's wife.
(d) Jean.

4. When Miss Merle arrives at Mathu's house, what is the first thing that happens?
(a) Lou Dimes confesses to the murder.
(b) Snookum finally gets something to eat.
(c) Mathu fires at the car.
(d) Candy confesses to the murder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had Coot not worn his WWI uniform in years?

2. How many years had Miss Merle known Candy?

3. Why did Mathu look down on some of the men who arrived to help him?

4. What does Bea need before she will think of more names?

5. Why did Glo hang on to Clatoo's hand a little longer?

(see the answer key)

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