2. 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 could get a drink before desegregation.
(c) Where black people were hidden during the Civil War.
(d) Where black people could gamble illegally.

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

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

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

6. After talking on the radio, Mapes makes an announcement to the group. What news does he share?
(a) That Fix is not coming.
(b) That Mathu is wanted in two other states for crimes there.
(c) That Luke Will and a lynch mob are coming.
(d) That Mapes fired his deputy.

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

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

9. What does Luke Will notice about Tee Jack at the end of the chapter?
(a) That he wants to join the lynch mob.
(b) That he is scared.
(c) That he had more free liquor.
(d) That he has closed the back room.

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

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

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

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

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

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