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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old is Charlie?
(a) 70
(b) 50
(c) 60
(d) 30

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

4. Why do the old men call Mapes into the house?
(a) Mapes told them they had 15 minutes and the old men know their time is up.
(b) Charlie is afraid of Fix and wants police protection.
(c) Charlie wants to challenge Mapes.
(d) Charlie wants to confess to the murder and turn himself in.

5. What does Luke Will say to Mapes about Charlie?
(a) Luke Will tells Mapes that he wants to talk to Charlie.
(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 to "hand him over."

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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 not as dark skinned as Mathu, they were not as African.
(c) They did not work as hard at Mathu.
(d) They were cowards and never stood up for themselves.

12. Who gets "winged?"
(a) Snookum.
(b) Leroy, one of Luke Will's men.
(c) Mathu.
(d) Lou.

13. What phrase does Charlie keep saying over and over again?
(a) I'm a man.
(b) I killed Beau.
(c) I need a better house.
(d) I need a tractor to work in the fields.

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

15. Who shot Mapes?
(a) One of the old black men.
(b) The deputy.
(c) Lou Dimes.
(d) One of Luke Will's lynch mob.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the three funerals for?

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

3. The narrater of this chapter is on which side of the shoot-out?

4. Once the old men are in the field, what do they do?

5. Who agreed with Gil?

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