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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Candy ask Corrine to get from inside the house?
(a) Something to cover the body.
(b) Some food and drink.
(c) People hiding in the house.
(d) More guns.

2. How did Candy's mother and father die?
(a) In a plane crash.
(b) Of natural causes.
(c) Working in the fields.
(d) In a car wreck.

3. Who welcomed Gil at the door of his father's house?
(a) Jean.
(b) Fix.
(c) Sully.
(d) Russell.

4. Why hadn't Cherry shot his gun?
(a) He wanted to shoot with the other men.
(b) He thought he might see a good rabbit.
(c) He wanted to shoot it at the graveyard.
(d) He was afraid the gun was too old and might not work.

5. What does Luke Will notice about Tee Jack at the end of the chapter?
(a) That he wants to join the lynch mob.
(b) That he had more free liquor.
(c) That he has closed the back room.
(d) That he is scared.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who talks Candy into ending the events of the day?

3. Who was Tessie?

4. Who tells Mat and Chimley that there has been a murder?

5. Where does Janey tell Miss Merle that Beau was killed?

(see the answer key)

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