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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) In a car wreck.
(b) Of natural causes.
(c) Working in the fields.
(d) In a plane crash.

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

3. Who did Luke Will say was in charge?
(a) Lou.
(b) Mathu.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Leroy.

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

5. 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 confess to the murder and turn himself in.
(d) Charlie wants to challenge Mapes.

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

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

8. Once the old men are in the field, what do they do?
(a) They are confused and don't know what to do next.
(b) They lay low and stay quiet.
(c) They hide in the swamps.
(d) They spead out, rise up and hoop and then fire at Luke Will and his gang.

9. The narrater of this chapter is on which side of the shoot-out?
(a) Mapes is not on anyone's side, but is now defending himself against Luke Will's gang.
(b) Sharp is on Luke Will's side.
(c) Snookum is on Candy's side.
(d) Charlie is on his own side.

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

11. The old men want to talk inside the house alone. They do not want Candy in the house with them. Candy gets very angry. What does Mapes say is Candy's motivation?
(a) She wants to keep them all slaves.
(b) She is trying to protect them, but it will do no good.
(c) She does not run the Marshall plantation, and she wants to be in charge.
(d) She blames Mathu for her upbringing.

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

13. What did Mathu ask Snookum to get from the house when the sandwiches came?
(a) Plates and forks.
(b) Ice water.
(c) More guns.
(d) Beer.

14. What action did Gil want his father to take about the death of his brother, Beau?
(a) Gil wanted his father, Fix, to talk to Mathu.
(b) Gil wanted to let the police arrest the suspect.
(c) Gil wanted Sully to talk to Mathu.
(d) Gil wanted to form a lynch mob and pick up Mathu.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gets shot and cannot move from his position?

2. Who was calling on God?

3. During the trial, what was the racial makeup of the observing crowd?

4. Who does Charlie call Parrain?

5. What did Dirty Red keep asking Charlie?

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