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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When Gil and Sully arrived at the Marshall quarters, Sully thought it looked like an episode from what T.V. show?
(a) The Perry Mason Show.
(b) The Beverly Hillbillies.
(c) Bewitched.
(d) The Twilight Show.

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

6. What did Mat tell his wife about the shotguns?
(a) He said they were going hunting.
(b) There was trouble at Mathu's house.
(c) There was a lynch mob on the way.
(d) He saw some rabbits he wanted to shoot.

7. What was Mathu always bragging about?
(a) About being a good shot.
(b) About not having white man's blood in his veins.
(c) About his friends.
(d) About how fast he could work.

8. How did Mapes know Mathu?
(a) They grew up together.
(b) They had hunted and fished together.
(c) They had been in a fistfight with each other.
(d) Mathu had worked for Mapes.

9. What position did Gil play on the football team?
(a) Fullback.
(b) Kicker.
(c) Halfback.
(d) Quarterback.

10. What kinds of flowers did Jack Toussaint grow?
(a) Sunflowers.
(b) Four-o'clocks.
(c) Lillies.
(d) Roses.

11. Why did Mat feel good about what they were doing?
(a) He felt they were finally taking a stand and doing something different.
(b) He wanted to go to jail to get away from his wife.
(c) He hadn't worked hard in a long time.
(d) He felt he was getting old and he wanted to shoot a gun again.

12. What was Beulah angry about?
(a) The way black women had been treated through the years.
(b) She thought that everyone was going to get killed that day.
(c) That all the old black men had guns.
(d) Everyone was hungry and needed food.

13. What does Snookum see at Mathu's house?
(a) Corrine in her kitchen eating.
(b) A dead body.
(c) Reverend Jameson standing over a body.
(d) Rufe hoeing in his garden.

14. What kind of a cap was Chimley wearing?
(a) A straw hat.
(b) His army hat.
(c) A very smart dress hat.
(d) A Dodgers' baseball cap.

15. Where did Coot's all-colored regiment train?
(a) France.
(b) Ft. Bragg.
(c) Italy.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Candy ask Snookum to do?

2. What happened to Oliver?

3. Who did Ella call?

4. Why had Coot not worn his WWI uniform in years?

5. Why did the two men continue to fish after they heard about the murder?

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