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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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 people saw the men all banged up and bandaged.
(d) When they saw Judge Reynolds.

7. What did Lou tell Mapes when he crawled over to him?
(a) "Your deputy resigned."
(b) "You're in the way."
(c) "We have to move you."
(d) "You're hit."

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

9. What is the "nigger room" in Tee Jack's store?
(a) Where Tee Jack stored cheap liqour that he sold to black customers.
(b) Where black people were hidden during the Civil War.
(c) Where black people could gamble illegally.
(d) Where black people could get a drink before desegregation.

10. Who shot Mapes?
(a) Lou Dimes.
(b) One of the old black men.
(c) One of Luke Will's lynch mob.
(d) The deputy.

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

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

13. Who in the store (bar) thinks that the police should handle the murder?
(a) Robert.
(b) Tee Jack.
(c) Jack Marshall
(d) The quiet professor.

14. Who welcomed Gil at the door of his father's house?
(a) Sully.
(b) Russell.
(c) Fix.
(d) Jean.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was sitting in Fix's lap?

2. Where did Snookum hide during the shoot-out?

3. What does Luke Will notice about Tee Jack at the end of the chapter?

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

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

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