View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Lou doing in the final moments of the shoot-out?
(a) He was shooting at the tractor.
(b) He was hiding under the house with Snookum.
(c) He was organizing the men to stand and hoop and shoot.
(d) He was waving his arms trying to get people to stop shooting.

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

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

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

5. Who agreed with Gil?
(a) Luke Will.
(b) Fix.
(c) His brother Claude.
(d) His brother Jean.

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

7. What was Leroy's reaction?
(a) He was sniveling.
(b) He had trouble aiming his gun.
(c) He laughed.
(d) He got mad and starting firing his gun as fast as he could.

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

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

10. Where is Snookum when Lou notices him?
(a) He is in the outhouse.
(b) He is on the front porch next to Mapes.
(c) He is in Lou's car.
(d) He has crawled through and is now under the front porch.

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

12. Who in the store (bar) thinks that the police should handle the murder?
(a) Tee Jack.
(b) The quiet professor.
(c) Jack Marshall
(d) Robert.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was sitting in Fix's lap?

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

3. During the trial, what was the racial makeup of the observing crowd?

4. What has Charlie done his whole life until today?

5. What does Luke Will notice about Tee Jack at the end of the chapter?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 625 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample