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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the "nigger room" in Tee Jack's store?
(a) Where Tee Jack stored cheap liqour that he sold to black customers.
(b) Where black people were hidden during the Civil War.
(c) Where black people could get a drink before desegregation.
(d) Where black people could gamble illegally.

5. Who narrates this chapter?
(a) Lou.
(b) Snookum.
(c) Mapes.
(d) Chimley

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

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

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

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

10. What has Charlie done his whole life until today?
(a) Ran away from anything that scared him.
(b) Worked hard on the plantation.
(c) Got drunk.
(d) Killed white men.

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

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

13. When Luke Will ran out of shells, what did Charlie offer?
(a) To stop the shoot-out.
(b) To surrender.
(c) To kill him.
(d) More shells.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gets "winged?"

2. 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?

3. Who did Luke Will say was in charge?

4. Who were the three funerals for?

5. What does Mapes say to Lou?

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