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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tee Jack do to calm Luke Will and his friends?
(a) Tee Jack offers to help with the lynching.
(b) Tee Jack gives Luke Will and his boys liquor for free.
(c) Tee Jack reminds Luke Will that his store/bar is still segregated.
(d) Tee Jack tell the professor to shut up.

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

3. What does Mapes say to Lou?
(a) "You're in charge."
(b) "I'm shot."
(c) "My deputy is a coward."
(d) "You're an idiot."

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

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

6. How did Candy's mother and father die?
(a) Working in the fields.
(b) Of natural causes.
(c) In a plane crash.
(d) In a car wreck.

7. Who narrates this chapter?
(a) Snookum.
(b) Chimley
(c) Mapes.
(d) Lou.

8. Who really raised Candy?
(a) Gram Mon.
(b) Miss Merle and Mathu.
(c) Lou Dimes.
(d) Mapes.

9. What did Dirty Red keep asking Charlie?
(a) If he believed in God.
(b) If he was going to kill Luke Will and Fix.
(c) If he really killed Beau.
(d) What he'd seen back in the swamps.

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

11. What did Fix do when Gil did not agree with him?
(a) Fix insisted that Gil raise Beau's son.
(b) Fix had his gang run Gil out of town.
(c) Fix banished Gil from the house.
(d) Fix did not speak to Gil inside the house.

12. When Luke Will ran out of shells, what did Charlie offer?
(a) To surrender.
(b) To stop the shoot-out.
(c) To kill him.
(d) More shells.

13. Who was sitting on the bed crying?
(a) Beau's wife.
(b) Jean.
(c) Beau's son.
(d) Fix.

14. What did Candy do when she waved goodbye to the old men?
(a) She squeezed Lou's hand.
(b) She cried.
(c) She laughed.
(d) She shook each man's hand.

15. Where did Snookum hide during the shoot-out?
(a) He crawled under the house.
(b) He ran out the kitchen door and into the outhouse.
(c) He hid in the kitchen.
(d) He hid next to Gram Mon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would bring the court to laughing?

2. Who was calling on God?

3. What did Miss Merle bring?

4. Where is Snookum when Lou notices him?

5. Who picks up Candy and puts her in his car?

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