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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Fix do when Gil did not agree with him?
(a) Fix did not speak to Gil inside the house.
(b) Fix had his gang run Gil out of town.
(c) Fix insisted that Gil raise Beau's son.
(d) Fix banished Gil from the house.

3. What do all the old black men, and women and children do after Charlie dies?
(a) They blame Mathu for the death of Charlie.
(b) They kill Luke Will and his gang.
(c) They all touch him as a sign of honor.
(d) They cover him with a bedspread and pray.

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

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

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

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

8. What does Jack Marshall do every day?
(a) Jack Marshall is the head of the lynch mob.
(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 Marshall plantation with his niece Candy.
(d) Jack Marshall runs the concrete plant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. How far did Charlie go before he was hit?
(a) To the tractor.
(b) Three or Four steps.
(c) To the ditch.
(d) Across the yard.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Charlie?

3. What does Mapes say to Lou?

4. What does Tee Jack do to calm Luke Will and his friends?

5. Who were the three funerals for?

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