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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was sitting on the bed crying?
(a) Jean.
(b) Beau's son.
(c) Beau's wife.
(d) Fix.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Luke Will notice about Tee Jack at the end of the chapter?
(a) That he wants to join the lynch mob.
(b) That he had more free liquor.
(c) That he is scared.
(d) That he has closed the back room.

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

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

10. What does Luke Will say to Mapes about Charlie?
(a) Luke Will tells Mapes to "hand him over."
(b) Luke Will tells Mapes that he's going to beat Charlie.
(c) Luke Will tells Mapes that Mathu is the murderer, not Charlie.
(d) Luke Will tells Mapes that he wants to talk to Charlie.

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

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

13. How far did Charlie go before he was hit?
(a) Across the yard.
(b) To the tractor.
(c) To the ditch.
(d) Three or Four steps.

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

15. Who shows up from the back of the house at the end of the chapter?
(a) Charlie Biggs.
(b) Fix.
(c) Luke Will.
(d) Lou Dimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gets "winged?"

2. Why does Candy slap Lou in the car?

3. After talking on the radio, Mapes makes an announcement to the group. What news does he share?

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

5. What does Jack Marshall do every day?

(see the answer keys)

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