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

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

4. Why was the coroner afraid to get out of his car?
(a) The deputy told him not to move.
(b) Mapes looked angry because it took him so long to get there.
(c) Candy threatened to shoot him.
(d) He realized that all the old black men were armed.

5. Where does Janey live?
(a) In Baton Rouge.
(b) At the Marshall house.
(c) At the quarters.
(d) At Mathu's house.

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

7. Why was Lou not at work?
(a) He was on assignment.
(b) He had taken the day off.
(c) He was at Candy's house.
(d) He was out eating dinner.

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

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

10. How did Clatoo know that Candy was lying?
(a) Her story was too practiced.
(b) She couldn't remember where the body was.
(c) She mixed up the facts about the time of death.
(d) She slipped and told Clatoo that Mathu killed Beau.

11. When Miss Merle arrives back at the Marshall house, what does she tell Bea?
(a) That she brought an apple pie for Jack.
(b) That she needs a drink.
(c) That she needs a twelve-gauge shotgun.
(d) That Beau Boutan is dead.

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

13. How was Gable's son put to death?
(a) He was shot.
(b) He died during a beating.
(c) He was lynched.
(d) The electric chair.

14. Where does Lou Dimes work?
(a) The sugar cane fields.
(b) The concrete plant.
(c) The newspaper in Baton Rouge.
(d) The Marshall house.

15. What does Bea need before she will think of more names?
(a) A gun.
(b) Food.
(c) Another drink.
(d) To wake the Major.