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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Luke Will's gang do at the end of the chapter?
(a) Luke Will's gang asks for supplies for the lynching from Tee Jack but he refuses.
(b) Luke Will's gang sits in the "nigger room" to finish their drinks.
(c) Luke Will's gang finish their drinks and leave.
(d) Luke Will's gang threatens Tee Jack that they will be back.

2. Why does Candy slap Lou in the car?
(a) Lou proposes again, at a very odd time.
(b) Lou tries to start the car and drive away.
(c) Lou says he is going to write a story about this for the newspaper.
(d) Lou says that Mathu is now free of her.

3. Who gets "winged?"
(a) Snookum.
(b) Lou.
(c) Leroy, one of Luke Will's men.
(d) Mathu.

4. Why did Beau come after Charlie?
(a) Charlie called him a name.
(b) Charlie was not working hard.
(c) Charlie told him he was quiting.
(d) Charlie hit Beau with his fist.

5. How old is Charlie?
(a) 60
(b) 30
(c) 70
(d) 50

6. What was Leroy's reaction?
(a) He got mad and starting firing his gun as fast as he could.
(b) He had trouble aiming his gun.
(c) He laughed.
(d) He was sniveling.

7. Who talks Candy into ending the events of the day?
(a) Lou.
(b) Mapes.
(c) Mathu.
(d) Johnny Paul.

8. What has Charlie done his whole life until today?
(a) Killed white men.
(b) Got drunk.
(c) Worked hard on the plantation.
(d) Ran away from anything that scared him.

9. What would bring the court to laughing?
(a) When people walked by outside.
(b) When nicknames for the old men were used in court.
(c) When they saw Judge Reynolds.
(d) When people saw the men all banged up and bandaged.

10. What does Jack Marshall do every day?
(a) Jack Marshall runs the Marshall plantation with his niece Candy.
(b) Jack Marshall comes into Tee Jack's store and drinks and stares at the door to the "nigger room."
(c) Jack Marshall is the head of the lynch mob.
(d) Jack Marshall runs the concrete plant.

11. What phrase does Charlie keep saying over and over again?
(a) I need a better house.
(b) I killed Beau.
(c) I need a tractor to work in the fields.
(d) I'm a man.

12. Who were the three funerals for?
(a) Charlie, Mapes and Luke Will.
(b) Mapes, Leroy and Luke Will.
(c) Luke Will, Beau, and Charlie.
(d) Beau, Luke Will and Mathu.

13. Once the old men are in the field, what do they do?
(a) They hide in the swamps.
(b) They spead out, rise up and hoop and then fire at Luke Will and his gang.
(c) They are confused and don't know what to do next.
(d) They lay low and stay quiet.

14. Who shows up from the back of the house at the end of the chapter?
(a) Fix.
(b) Lou Dimes.
(c) Charlie Biggs.
(d) Luke Will.

15. The narrater of this chapter is on which side of the shoot-out?
(a) Sharp is on Luke Will's side.
(b) Mapes is not on anyone's side, but is now defending himself against Luke Will's gang.
(c) Charlie is on his own side.
(d) Snookum is on Candy's side.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Mathu look down on all the other old black men?

2. Who shot Mapes?

3. Who narrates this chapter?

4. What does Luke Will say to Mapes about Charlie?

5. What does Tee Jack do to calm Luke Will and his friends?

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