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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 gives Luke Will and his boys liquor for free.
(c) Tee Jack offers to help with the lynching.
(d) Tee Jack tell the professor to shut up.

3. 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 finish their drinks and leave.
(d) Luke Will's gang asks for supplies for the lynching from Tee Jack but he refuses.

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. What happens when Charlie and Mapes go out the front door?
(a) The deputy arrests Charlie.
(b) The old men follow them out.
(c) Mapes handcuffs Charlie.
(d) Luke Will shows up.

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

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

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

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

13. Who agreed with Gil?
(a) Luke Will.
(b) His brother Claude.
(c) His brother Jean.
(d) Fix.

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

15. During the trial, what was the racial makeup of the observing crowd?
(a) About half black and half white.
(b) All white as blacks were not allowed in the courtroom.
(c) All white on the main floor and a few blacks in the balcony.
(d) All black.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Candy do when she waved goodbye to the old men?

2. Who in the store (bar) thinks that the police should handle the murder?

3. What was Lou doing in the final moments of the shoot-out?

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

5. How many days did the trail go on?

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