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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Snookum want for a reward for running the errand?
(a) Lots of money.
(b) A sip of liquor.
(c) To look at the dead body again.
(d) Tea cakes and Plarines.

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

3. How was Yank dressed?
(a) Like he was going to church.
(b) In shorts and a white shirt.
(c) In a clean shirt and pants.
(d) Like a cowboy.

4. What did Candy always wear?
(a) Dresses.
(b) Pants and shirts, never dresses.
(c) Skirts.
(d) Shorts and t-shirts.

5. What did Candy ask Snookum to do?
(a) Run and get Toddy and Minnie.
(b) Run and get people to gather at Mathu's house.
(c) Run and get Aunt Glo.
(d) Run and get Lou Dimes.

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

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

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

9. When Miss Merle is talking about "Jack" who is she referring to?
(a) Mathu.
(b) Snookum.
(c) Candy.
(d) The Major.

10. What days did Mat and Chimley fish on the river?
(a) Saturdays only.
(b) Sundays after church.
(c) Mondays and Wednesdays.
(d) Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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

12. Where does Lou Dimes work?
(a) At the concrete plant.
(b) In the sugar can fields.
(c) At a newspaper in Baton Rouge.
(d) At the Marshall's main house.

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

14. What happened when Mat returned home with his fish?
(a) He got in an arguement with his wife, Ella.
(b) He kissed Ella hello at the door.
(c) He got in his car and drove to Mathu's house.
(d) He started cleaning the fish.

15. Where did Sully drive Gil?
(a) To Mathu's house.
(b) To the big game with Ole Miss.
(c) To the Marshall house to see Major.
(d) To Baton Rouge

Short Answer Questions

1. When Gil arrived at the scene of the crime, how long had his brother been dead?

2. Janey calls two people on the phone. Who are they?

3. Why is Gil upset with Mapes, the sheriff?

4. What did Gil want most?

5. What was next to Beau's body?

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