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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mapes, the sheriff, prove that Uncle Billy could not have shot Beau?
(a) Mapes noticed how thick Uncle Billy's glasses were.
(b) Mapes asked Uncle Billy to aim at one of the bean poles and shoot.
(c) Mapes looked at Uncle Billy's gun.
(d) Mapes told Uncle Billy to shoot Mathu.

2. Why does Candy slap Lou in the car?
(a) Lou says that Mathu is now free of her.
(b) Lou says he is going to write a story about this for the newspaper.
(c) Lou proposes again, at a very odd time.
(d) Lou tries to start the car and drive away.

3. When Gil and Sully arrived at the Marshall quarters, Sully thought it looked like an episode from what T.V. show?
(a) The Beverly Hillbillies.
(b) The Perry Mason Show.
(c) Bewitched.
(d) The Twilight Show.

4. Once the old men are in the field, what do they do?
(a) They spead out, rise up and hoop and then fire at Luke Will and his gang.
(b) They lay low and stay quiet.
(c) They hide in the swamps.
(d) They are confused and don't know what to do next.

5. What did Yank do in his younger days?
(a) He was a servant.
(b) He worked in a rodeo.
(c) He worked in the sugar cane fields.
(d) He broke horses and mules.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who picks up Candy and puts her in his car?

2. Who carried his gun like a soldier?

3. What does Miss Merle tell Janey to do?

4. Why did Cherry not like the sight of an empty cane field?

5. The old men want to talk inside the house alone. They do not want Candy in the house with them. Candy gets very angry. What does Mapes say is Candy's motivation?

(see the answer key)

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