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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position did Sully play on the LSU football team?
(a) Halfback.
(b) 3rd string quarterback.
(c) Fullback.
(d) Quarterback.

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

3. What did Clatoo do with the shoe box?
(a) He hid the shoe box behind the second block under the house.
(b) He hid the shoe box in the kitchen.
(c) He hid the shoe box in the field out back.
(d) He hid the shoe box in the outhouse.

4. What was happening the next day?
(a) A big football practice that Gil had to attend.
(b) A big football game between LSU and Ole Miss.
(c) A county fair.
(d) A demonstration on campus.

5. How was Yank dressed?
(a) Like he was going to church.
(b) In shorts and a white shirt.
(c) In a clean shirt and pants.
(d) Like a cowboy.

6. 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.

7. What did the men begin saying one at a time?
(a) They each confessed to the murder of Beau.
(b) How much they each hated Beau.
(c) That they were hungry.
(d) That they would never leave.

8. What did Mapes have in his mouth most of the time?
(a) Gum.
(b) A Life Saver candy.
(c) A cigar.
(d) A toothpick.

9. Why did Miss Merle bring a pie?
(a) For Jack, the Major, because she likes him.
(b) For Janey, because she needed help.
(c) For Miss Bea because she wanted a favor.
(d) For Candy, because she had heard about the murder.

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

11. 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.

12. Where did Sully drive Gil?
(a) To Baton Rouge
(b) To Mathu's house.
(c) To the Marshall house to see Major.
(d) To the big game with Ole Miss.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Janey keep looking down toward the highway?

2. What did Cherry Bello own?

3. Who narrates this chapter?

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

5. What was Dirty Red and his family known for?

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