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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Why did Beau come after Charlie?
(a) Charlie called him a name.
(b) Charlie hit Beau with his fist.
(c) Charlie was not working hard.
(d) Charlie told him he was quiting.

3. What does Charlie do before he charges Luke Will?
(a) Yells at Luke Will to give up.
(b) Smokes a cigarette.
(c) Shoots Leroy.
(d) Decides to give up.

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

5. Why does Candy slap Lou in the car?
(a) Lou says he is going to write a story about this for the newspaper.
(b) Lou says that Mathu is now free of her.
(c) Lou proposes again, at a very odd time.
(d) Lou tries to start the car and drive away.

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

7. Who was sitting in Fix's lap?
(a) Beau's wife.
(b) Fix's son.
(c) Fix's wife.
(d) Beau's son.

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

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

10. What does Snookum say that almost gives away Candy's entire plan?
(a) Snookum says he wants another sandwich because Candy didn't give him anything to run and get everybody.
(b) Snookum says he wants some ice water or he will tell Mapes who shot Beau.
(c) Snookum says that Candy promised him sandwiches if he would keep his mouth shut.
(d) Snookum says Gram Mon wants a second sandwich because she was cooking dinner when someone shot Beau.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Miss Merle bring?

2. Who were the three funerals for?

3. What would bring the court to laughing?

4. Who talks Candy into ending the events of the day?

5. How old is Charlie?

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