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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of a cap was Chimley wearing?
(a) A Dodgers' baseball cap.
(b) A straw hat.
(c) His army hat.
(d) A very smart dress hat.

2. What does Bea need before she will think of more names?
(a) To wake the Major.
(b) Another drink.
(c) Food.
(d) A gun.

3. When did Chimley not mind being called by his nickname?
(a) When Candy talked to him.
(b) When his friends were talking to him.
(c) When Mr. Lou talked to him.
(d) When his momma talked to him.

4. What did Chimley's wife say when Chimley came home?
(a) She asked him where he'd been.
(b) She asked him if he was going to play cards that evening.
(c) She didn't want to clean the fish.
(d) She told him to wipe his feet at the door.

5. Which animal did Janey say Miss Merle looked like?
(a) A bear.
(b) An alligator.
(c) A fish.
(d) An owl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the men begin saying one at a time?

2. Why does Candy slap Lou in the car?

3. Why do the old men call Mapes into the house?

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

5. What was Yank's job before tractors came to the sugar can fields?

(see the answer key)

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