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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Clatoo dressed in a nice shirt and bow tie?
(a) He was returning from work.
(b) He had just returned from church with Reverend Jameson.
(c) He sold vegetables out of his truck and always wanted to remind people that he was a businessman.
(d) He had just been to a funeral.

2. What was Yank's job before tractors came to the sugar can fields?
(a) Yank was the house servant at the Marshall house.
(b) Yank broke horses.
(c) Yank was a professional fisherman.
(d) Yank cut sugar cane.

3. How did Chimley fire his gun?
(a) Up into the trees at the graveyard.
(b) At his wife to scare her.
(c) Out the window.
(d) At Mathu.

4. Where did the group of old men walk to?
(a) The black graveyard.
(b) To the bank of the river.
(c) To the cane fields.
(d) Back to Dirty Red's house.

5. What does Tee Jack do to calm Luke Will and his friends?
(a) Tee Jack tell the professor to shut up.
(b) Tee Jack gives Luke Will and his boys liquor for free.
(c) Tee Jack reminds Luke Will that his store/bar is still segregated.
(d) Tee Jack offers to help with the lynching.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Coot's all-colored regiment train?

2. Why hadn't Cherry shot his gun?

3. Where does Janey live?

4. Why did Clatoo let the men out of the truck before they arrived at Mathu's?

5. Where did Chimley keep his number five shells?

(see the answer key)

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