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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were the old black men going to the back of the house one at a time?
(a) To check on Mathu.
(b) To get some food.
(c) To see if Charlie was there.
(d) To use the outhouse.

2. Where did Snookum hide during the shoot-out?
(a) He crawled under the house.
(b) He ran out the kitchen door and into the outhouse.
(c) He hid in the kitchen.
(d) He hid next to Gram Mon.

3. During the trial, what was the racial makeup of the observing crowd?
(a) All white on the main floor and a few blacks in the balcony.
(b) About half black and half white.
(c) All white as blacks were not allowed in the courtroom.
(d) All black.

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

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

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

7. 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."

8. Why did Mathu look down on all the other old black men?
(a) They owned their own houses, and Mathu still worked on the Marshall land.
(b) They were cowards and never stood up for themselves.
(c) They did not work as hard at Mathu.
(d) They were not as dark skinned as Mathu, they were not as African.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who narrates this chapter?

2. Who in the store (bar) thinks that the police should handle the murder?

3. What does Tee Jack do to calm Luke Will and his friends?

4. Who shows up from the back of the house at the end of the chapter?

5. What does Luke Will's gang do at the end of the chapter?

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