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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Gable's sixteen-year-old son put to death?
(a) A white woman claimed he raped her.
(b) Gable's son ran away from home.
(c) Gable's son stared at a white man's wife.
(d) Gable's son started a fight in town and hit a white man.

2. Who carried his gun like a soldier?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Clatoo.
(c) Chimley.
(d) Mat.

3. Why did the two men continue to fish after they heard about the murder?
(a) They were waiting for their wives to call them to dinner.
(b) They were thinking about where to hide.
(c) The were scared because of what had happened in the past.
(d) They were waiting for further instructions.

4. Who teased Billy when he missed the rabbit?
(a) Mat.
(b) Clatoo.
(c) Chimley.
(d) Dirty Red.

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

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

7. Mapes asked his deputy to call someone back in town. Who?
(a) Russell and Herman.
(b) Call for backup.
(c) Fix.
(d) Miss Bea and the Major.

8. Why did Billy miss when he shot at the rabbit?
(a) Billy did not have good eyesight.
(b) Billy jumped because he thought it was a snake.
(c) Billy was known to be a very bad shot with a gun.
(d) Billy heard a shot in the distance that scared him.

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

10. Why did Glo hang on to Clatoo's hand a little longer?
(a) She was worried about Fix arriving and she was proud of all the old black men.
(b) She had once loved Clatoo.
(c) She wanted to pray with Clatoo.
(d) She didn't walk well and needed help to stand to greet him.

11. Why hadn't Cherry shot his gun?
(a) He wanted to shoot it at the graveyard.
(b) He was afraid the gun was too old and might not work.
(c) He wanted to shoot with the other men.
(d) He thought he might see a good rabbit.

12. What did Mapes do to try to get the truth from the old men?
(a) Mapes and his deputy fired their guns at the crowd.
(b) Mapes arrested all the man and took them to the town jail.
(c) Mapes slapped them across the face.
(d) Mapes arrested Candy.

13. How did Candy's parents die?
(a) Of natural causes.
(b) They were murdered.
(c) In an airplane crash.
(d) In a car wreck.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did each old black man do and say?

3. What is the garry?

4. What instructions did Candy give to Snookum about Mr. Lou?

5. What did Mat tell his wife about the shotguns?

(see the answer keys)

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