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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the women's reaction to Mapes slapping Uncle Billy and Gable?
(a) They moaned but did not move.
(b) They prayed.
(c) They yelled at Mapes.
(d) They ran over and tried to stop Mapes.

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

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

4. What was Beulah angry about?
(a) Everyone was hungry and needed food.
(b) That all the old black men had guns.
(c) The way black women had been treated through the years.
(d) She thought that everyone was going to get killed that day.

5. What are the tractor's getting closer and closer to?
(a) Mathu's house.
(b) Candy's house.
(c) The black graveyard.
(d) The houses at the quarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the two men continue to fish after they heard about the murder?

2. What does Miss Merle tell Janey to do?

3. Why didn't the coroner want to get out of the car?

4. Why does Candy want more men and more twelve-gauge shotguns?

5. According to Chimley's story, who got in a fistfight with Fix?

(see the answer key)

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