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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What two things did Mapes ask his deputy, Griffin, to say on the radio?
(a) To talk to Fix and tell him to come right away and call for backup.
(b) To call Fix and tell him to stay put and to call Miss Merle for some sandwiches.
(c) To tell Russ to keep Fix at the bayou and Herman to come pick up the body.
(d) To call Lou Dimes and Miss Bea.

3. Why did Mat decide to go to Mathu's?
(a) Mat thought it would be a good place to hide.
(b) Mat thought it was better than going home.
(c) Mat thought it was his last chance.
(d) Mat didn't have anywhere else to go.

4. Why had Coot not worn his WWI uniform in years?
(a) White men told him not to wear it in public.
(b) It didn't fit well anymore.
(c) Nobody knew what it meant.
(d) White men beat him up for wearing it in public.

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

6. What did Chimley's wife say when Chimley came home?
(a) She didn't want to clean the fish.
(b) She asked him if he was going to play cards that evening.
(c) She asked him where he'd been.
(d) She told him to wipe his feet at the door.

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

8. What was so important about the "Salt and Pepper" football duo?
(a) Salt and Pepper hated each other but played football well together.
(b) LSU had a losing season and needed to use Salt and Pepper in the big game the next day.
(c) It would be the first time that a black and white boy played in the same backfield in the Deep South.
(d) Because Salt was Cajun.

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

10. On their way out of town, what happened to Gil and Sully?
(a) People recognized Gil and wanted to wish him well in the game.
(b) They had to drop Cal back at his dorm.
(c) They got lost going to Marshall.
(d) They were in a car wreck.

11. How many miles did Lou drive from Baron rouge to Marshall?
(a) Thirty-five.
(b) Fifty.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Five hundred.

12. Janey calls two people on the phone. Who are they?
(a) Mathu and Candy.
(b) Lou Dimes and Miss Merle.
(c) Miss Bea and the Major.
(d) Toddy and Minnie.

13. What was the women's reaction to Mapes slapping Uncle Billy and Gable?
(a) They prayed.
(b) They yelled at Mapes.
(c) They moaned but did not move.
(d) They ran over and tried to stop Mapes.

14. Why did Cherry not like the sight of an empty cane field?
(a) It made him feel lonely.
(b) He preferred the site of a cane field about to be plowed.
(c) He was sad that there was no work left for the year.
(d) It reminded him of how the tractors plowed the fields and hurt the land.

15. How did Mapes, the sheriff, prove that Uncle Billy could not have shot Beau?
(a) Mapes noticed how thick Uncle Billy's glasses were.
(b) Mapes looked at Uncle Billy's gun.
(c) Mapes asked Uncle Billy to aim at one of the bean poles and shoot.
(d) Mapes told Uncle Billy to shoot Mathu.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Miss Merle is talking about "Jack" who is she referring to?

2. Who was the only man who didn't have a gun?

3. Where did the group walk to at the end of the chapter?

4. How did Mapes know Mathu?

5. What war did Coot fight in?

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