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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why do the old men call Mapes into the house?
(a) Mapes told them they had 15 minutes and the old men know their time is up.
(b) Charlie is afraid of Fix and wants police protection.
(c) Charlie wants to challenge Mapes.
(d) Charlie wants to confess to the murder and turn himself in.

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

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

10. Who picks up Candy and puts her in his car?
(a) Lou Dimes.
(b) Mapes.
(c) Johnny Paul.
(d) Mathu.

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

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

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

14. What did Miss Merle bring?
(a) More empty shells.
(b) Four more men.
(c) More guns.
(d) Sandwiches in baskets.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who really raised Candy?

2. Who is the first person to get shot in the shoot-out?

3. What did Dirty Red keep asking Charlie?

4. What did Mathu ask Snookum to get from the house when the sandwiches came?

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

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