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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Janey say that Miss Bea and Major are?
(a) In the house trying to sleep.
(b) Drinking on the porch.
(c) Out back in the field collecting pecans.
(d) Eating in the kitchen.

2. Where does Janey live?
(a) At the Marshall house.
(b) At Mathu's house.
(c) At the quarters.
(d) In Baton Rouge.

3. Why did people call Sully T.V.?
(a) He had a sixth-sense when something was about to happen.
(b) He was a T.V. nut.
(c) He liked the Twilight Zone T.V. show.
(d) He watched T.V. only at night.

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

5. Who did Ella call?
(a) Miss Merle.
(b) Mathu's house.
(c) The police.
(d) Uncle Billy's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shows up from the back of the house at the end of the chapter?

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

3. Why was the coroner afraid to get out of his car?

4. What did Miss Merle see when she turned into the quarters?

5. What was Yank's job before tractors came to the sugar can fields?

(see the answer key)

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