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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action did Gil want his father to take about the death of his brother, Beau?
(a) Gil wanted to let the police arrest the suspect.
(b) Gil wanted his father, Fix, to talk to Mathu.
(c) Gil wanted Sully to talk to Mathu.
(d) Gil wanted to form a lynch mob and pick up Mathu.

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

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

4. Janey calls two people on the phone. Who are they?
(a) Toddy and Minnie.
(b) Mathu and Candy.
(c) Miss Bea and the Major.
(d) Lou Dimes and Miss Merle.

5. What did Clatoo do with the shoe box?
(a) He hid the shoe box in the outhouse.
(b) He hid the shoe box in the kitchen.
(c) He hid the shoe box behind the second block under the house.
(d) He hid the shoe box in the field out back.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who arrived at the end of the chapter?

3. What did Fix do when Gil did not agree with him?

4. Why does Candy slap Lou in the car?

5. Who was Tessie?

(see the answer key)

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