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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What group was there to defend Luke Will's friends?
(a) Lou Dimes.
(b) Candy's uncle.
(c) The Klans.
(d) NAACP.

5. How many days did the trail go on?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 4 weeks.
(c) 14 days.
(d) 3 days.

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

7. Why did Mathu look down on all the other old black men?
(a) They owned their own houses, and Mathu still worked on the Marshall land.
(b) They were not as dark skinned as Mathu, they were not as African.
(c) They were cowards and never stood up for themselves.
(d) They did not work as hard at Mathu.

8. What was Lou doing in the final moments of the shoot-out?
(a) He was organizing the men to stand and hoop and shoot.
(b) He was shooting at the tractor.
(c) He was hiding under the house with Snookum.
(d) He was waving his arms trying to get people to stop shooting.

9. What does Luke Will notice about Tee Jack at the end of the chapter?
(a) That he has closed the back room.
(b) That he wants to join the lynch mob.
(c) That he is scared.
(d) That he had more free liquor.

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

11. What was different about the way Yank hollered?
(a) He hollered just like all the other men.
(b) He hollered in a very low voice.
(c) He hollered with a very southern accent.
(d) He hollered the way you holler at a rodeo.

12. How far did Charlie go before he was hit?
(a) Three or Four steps.
(b) Across the yard.
(c) To the tractor.
(d) To the ditch.

13. Who is the first person to get shot in the shoot-out?
(a) Mapes.
(b) Lou.
(c) Snookum.
(d) Mathu.

14. After talking on the radio, Mapes makes an announcement to the group. What news does he share?
(a) That Luke Will and a lynch mob are coming.
(b) That Mapes fired his deputy.
(c) That Mathu is wanted in two other states for crimes there.
(d) That Fix is not coming.

15. Who gets shot and cannot move from his position?
(a) Lou Dimes.
(b) Luke Will.
(c) Mapes.
(d) Candy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Candy slap Lou in the car?

2. Why do the old men call Mapes into the house?

3. Once the old men are in the field, what do they do?

4. Who really raised Candy?

5. Who does Charlie call Parrain?

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