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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Janey tell Miss Bea about the murder?
(a) Miss Bea hated Beau.
(b) Miss Bea is still asleep and Janey doesn't want to wake her.
(c) She thinks it would be like "talking to a wall."
(d) Because Miss Bea in drunk on the porch swing.

2. Who picks up Candy and puts her in his car?
(a) Mathu.
(b) Lou Dimes.
(c) Johnny Paul.
(d) Mapes.

3. Who baked the apple pie?
(a) Lucy, Miss Merle's servant.
(b) Miss Bea.
(c) Miss Merle.
(d) Janey.

4. 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 cut sugar cane.
(c) Yank broke horses.
(d) Yank was a professional fisherman.

5. According to Chimley's story, who got in a fistfight with Fix?
(a) Mat.
(b) Mathu.
(c) Candy.
(d) The sheriff.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Sully drive Gil?

3. How did Mapes know Mathu?

4. What does Luke Will say to Mapes about Charlie?

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

(see the answer key)

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