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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Dirty Red and his family known for?
(a) They kept the graveyard clean.
(b) They were known as good sugar cane workers.
(c) They were sharecroppers.
(d) They were considered lazy.

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

4. 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 tell Russ to keep Fix at the bayou and Herman to come pick up the body.
(c) To call Fix and tell him to stay put and to call Miss Merle for some sandwiches.
(d) To call Lou Dimes and Miss Bea.

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

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

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

8. Who is Snookum's grandmother?
(a) Candy
(b) Mathu
(c) Gram Mon
(d) Janey

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

10. How did the fight start between Fix and Mathu?
(a) It started over a Coke bottle.
(b) Fix took Mathu's Coke from him.
(c) Mathu stared at Fix as he was drinking a Coke.
(d) Fix took a Coke without paying for it.

11. What did Miss Merle see when she turned into the quarters?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Candy's black LTD.
(c) The tractor.
(d) Men everywhere with shotguns.

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

13. What are the tractor's getting closer and closer to?
(a) The houses at the quarters.
(b) Candy's house.
(c) The black graveyard.
(d) Mathu's house.

14. Why did Chimley not like white people calling him by his nickname?
(a) Chimley did not like white people.
(b) Because he wasn't very dark-skinned and he wondered why they called him by that name.
(c) Chimley thought they were making fun of him.
(d) Because white people mistakenly called him Chimney.

15. Why did the two men continue to fish after they heard about the murder?
(a) They were waiting for further instructions.
(b) They were thinking about where to hide.
(c) They were waiting for their wives to call them to dinner.
(d) The were scared because of what had happened in the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time is it when Miss Merle spots the Major asleep in the swing?

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

3. How did Mapes, the sheriff, prove that Uncle Billy could not have shot Beau?

4. When Gil arrived at the scene of the crime, how long had his brother been dead?

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

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