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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was calling on God?
(a) Reverend Jameson.
(b) Mapes.
(c) Lou Dimes.
(d) Gram Mon.

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

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

4. 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 does not run the Marshall plantation, and she wants to be in charge.
(b) She wants to keep them all slaves.
(c) She blames Mathu for her upbringing.
(d) She is trying to protect them, but it will do no good.

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

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

7. What do all the old black men, and women and children do after Charlie dies?
(a) They kill Luke Will and his gang.
(b) They all touch him as a sign of honor.
(c) They cover him with a bedspread and pray.
(d) They blame Mathu for the death of Charlie.

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

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

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

11. 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 banished Gil from the house.
(d) Fix insisted that Gil raise Beau's son.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Luke Will ran out of shells, what did Charlie offer?

2. Why does Candy slap Lou in the car?

3. What does Luke Will say to Mapes about Charlie?

4. Why were the old black men going to the back of the house one at a time?

5. What does Snookum say that almost gives away Candy's entire plan?

(see the answer keys)

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