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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the men begin saying one at a time?
(a) That they would never leave.
(b) They each confessed to the murder of Beau.
(c) How much they each hated Beau.
(d) That they were hungry.

3. What was Dirty Red and his family known for?
(a) They were known as good sugar cane workers.
(b) They kept the graveyard clean.
(c) They were sharecroppers.
(d) They were considered lazy.

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

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

6. What position did Sully play on the LSU football team?
(a) Fullback.
(b) Quarterback.
(c) Halfback.
(d) 3rd string quarterback.

7. What is Janey's job?
(a) Field worker.
(b) Servant.
(c) Bartender.
(d) Driver.

8. What happened to Oliver?
(a) He died when a group of white men ran him into the river.
(b) He died in a car wreck.
(c) He died in a hospital when the doctors wouldn't treat a black man.
(d) He died when a lynch mob killed him.

9. What did Cherry Bello own?
(a) A liquor - and - grocery store.
(b) A plantation.
(c) A vegetable truck.
(d) A gas station.

10. What war did Coot fight in?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) WWI.
(c) Korea.
(d) WWII.

11. Why is Miss Merle in such a hurry to get to the quarters?
(a) She is worried that Miss Bea is down there causing trouble.
(b) She is worried that Fix is on the way and wants to get there before him.
(c) She is worried that Janey will tell the entire town and she wants to get there before she does.
(d) She is worried that the Major will wake up and be angry and go to the quarters drunk.

12. Why did Mat decide to go to Mathu's?
(a) Mat didn't have anywhere else to go.
(b) Mat thought it would be a good place to hide.
(c) Mat thought it was his last chance.
(d) Mat thought it was better than going home.

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

14. What did Chimley tell his wife when he left the house?
(a) To gather all the women and meet him at Mathu's
(b) To have the fish ready to eat when he returned.
(c) To quit bugging him.
(d) The find more men and guns and send them along.

15. 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 had Chimley talk to his wife.
(d) He ripped the phone out of the wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Clatoo know that Candy was lying?

2. What color is Clabber's skin?

3. Where did Sully drive Gil?

4. Who helped raise Candy?

5. What did Yank do in his younger days?

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