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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did the group walk to at the end of the chapter?
(a) To town to get the sheriff.
(b) To Mathu's house.
(c) To the white graveyard.
(d) To Clatoo's truck.

3. How did Mapes know Mathu?
(a) They grew up together.
(b) They had been in a fistfight with each other.
(c) They had hunted and fished together.
(d) Mathu had worked for Mapes.

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

5. What did the coach need to tell Gil?
(a) Pepper was nominiated for All-American.
(b) The newspaper was writing a story about Salt and Pepper.
(c) Gil's brother, Beau, had been murdered by a black man.
(d) Gil's father, Fix, called Gil to come home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Candy ask Snookum to do?

2. Why did Mat decide to go to Mathu's?

3. What did Clatoo do with the shoe box?

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

5. When Gil and Sully arrived at the Marshall quarters, Sully thought it looked like an episode from what T.V. show?

(see the answer key)

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