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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which animal did Janey say Miss Merle looked like?
(a) A bear.
(b) A fish.
(c) An owl.
(d) An alligator.

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

4. Who narrates this chapter?
(a) Candy.
(b) Lou Dimes.
(c) Clatoo.
(d) Beulah.

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

6. Who was Tessie?
(a) Jacob's mother.
(b) Jacob's sister.
(c) A white woman who claimed she was raped by Jacob.
(d) Chimley's wife.

7. Where does Janey tell Miss Merle that Beau was killed?
(a) In the quarters.
(b) In Baton Rouge.
(c) At the Marshall main house.
(d) In the sugar cane field.

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

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

10. How did Tucker's brother Silas get into trouble with white people?
(a) Silas and his mules won a contest with Fix's tractor.
(b) Silas talked to a white woman.
(c) Silas stole a white man's tractor.
(d) Silas dated a white woman.

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

12. What is Janey's job?
(a) Driver.
(b) Field worker.
(c) Servant.
(d) Bartender.

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

14. Why hadn't Cherry shot his gun?
(a) He wanted to shoot with the other men.
(b) He thought he might see a good rabbit.
(c) He wanted to shoot it at the graveyard.
(d) He was afraid the gun was too old and might not work.

15. When Ella tried to call the sheriff, what did Mat do?
(a) He threw a fish at Ella's head.
(b) He ripped the phone out of the wall.
(c) He left with Clatoo in the truck.
(d) He had Chimley talk to his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mat tell his wife about the shotguns?

2. Why did Billy miss when he shot at the rabbit?

3. Who baked the apple pie?

4. How did Candy's parents die?

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

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