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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Janey worry when Miss Bea is gathering pecans?
(a) She is worried that Miss Bea will be biten by a snake.
(b) The is worried that Miss Bea will not gather enough pecans for everyone.
(c) She is worried that Miss Bea will return before she gets her housework done.
(d) She is worried that she is drunk and will fall in the tall grass.

3. What did Clatoo do with the shoe box?
(a) He hid the shoe box in the kitchen.
(b) He hid the shoe box in the outhouse.
(c) He hid the shoe box in the field out back.
(d) He hid the shoe box behind the second block under the house.

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

5. What did Gil want most?
(a) To finish school without any trouble.
(b) To kill the man who killed his brother.
(c) To be All-American with Cal.
(d) To do whatever his dad, Fix wanted him to do.

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

7. Who was Tessie?
(a) Jacob's mother.
(b) A white woman who claimed she was raped by Jacob.
(c) Jacob's sister.
(d) Chimley's wife.

8. What did Yank do in his younger days?
(a) He worked in a rodeo.
(b) He broke horses and mules.
(c) He worked in the sugar cane fields.
(d) He was a servant.

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

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

11. Who narrates this chapter?
(a) Beulah.
(b) Lou Dimes.
(c) Candy.
(d) Clatoo.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why hadn't Cherry shot his gun?

2. What was Mathu always bragging about?

3. What, according to Johnny Paul, could Mapes NOT see?

4. What did Chimley tell his wife when he left the house?

5. Why did Mathu look down on some of the men who arrived to help him?

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