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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Lou Dimes work?
(a) At the concrete plant.
(b) At the Marshall's main house.
(c) At a newspaper in Baton Rouge.
(d) In the sugar can fields.

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

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

6. What is the garry?
(a) The cane field.
(b) The pecan groves.
(c) The front porch, the garrett.
(d) The shady side of the house.

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

8. Why is Gil upset with Mapes, the sheriff?
(a) Gil thinks Mapes should have moved the body by now.
(b) Gil thinks Mapes should arrest Candy.
(c) Gil can't believe that there have been no arrests made.
(d) Gil thinks Mapes is stalling to wait until Fix and the lynch mob arrive.

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

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

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

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

13. What time is it when Miss Merle spots the Major asleep in the swing?
(a) 6:00 a.m.
(b) Around dinnertime.
(c) Before 12:30 p.m.
(d) After 1:00 p.m.

14. What days did Mat and Chimley fish on the river?
(a) Sundays after church.
(b) Mondays and Wednesdays.
(c) Saturdays only.
(d) Tuesdays and Thursdays.

15. Who does Janey work for?
(a) The Major and Miss Bea.
(b) Mr. Lou.
(c) Candy.
(d) Miss Merle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Mat feel good about what they were doing?

2. What does Snookum see at Mathu's house?

3. Why did Cherry not like the sight of an empty cane field?

4. Who is Aunt Glo?

5. Why did people call Sully T.V.?

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