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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Billy miss when he shot at the rabbit?
(a) Billy did not have good eyesight.
(b) Billy was known to be a very bad shot with a gun.
(c) Billy jumped because he thought it was a snake.
(d) Billy heard a shot in the distance that scared him.

2. Where did Coot's all-colored regiment train?
(a) Ft. Bragg.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) California.

3. What is the "nigger room" in Tee Jack's store?
(a) Where Tee Jack stored cheap liqour that he sold to black customers.
(b) Where black people were hidden during the Civil War.
(c) Where black people could get a drink before desegregation.
(d) Where black people could gamble illegally.

4. Where is Snookum when Lou notices him?
(a) He is in Lou's car.
(b) He is in the outhouse.
(c) He is on the front porch next to Mapes.
(d) He has crawled through and is now under the front porch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lou tell Mapes when he crawled over to him?

2. How many years had Miss Merle known Candy?

3. What was next to Beau's body?

4. Who did Ella call?

5. Who in the store (bar) thinks that the police should handle the murder?

(see the answer key)

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