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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Luke Will's gang do at the end of the chapter?
(a) Luke Will's gang finish their drinks and leave.
(b) Luke Will's gang threatens Tee Jack that they will be back.
(c) Luke Will's gang sits in the "nigger room" to finish their drinks.
(d) Luke Will's gang asks for supplies for the lynching from Tee Jack but he refuses.

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

3. What happens when Charlie and Mapes go out the front door?
(a) The old men follow them out.
(b) Mapes handcuffs Charlie.
(c) Luke Will shows up.
(d) The deputy arrests Charlie.

4. What action did Gil want his father to take about the death of his brother, Beau?
(a) Gil wanted his father, Fix, to talk to Mathu.
(b) Gil wanted Sully to talk to Mathu.
(c) Gil wanted to form a lynch mob and pick up Mathu.
(d) Gil wanted to let the police arrest the suspect.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mapes say to Lou?

2. Who gets "winged?"

3. Who is the first person to get shot in the shoot-out?

4. What is the "nigger room" in Tee Jack's store?

5. What did Dirty Red keep asking Charlie?

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