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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mapes do to try to get the truth from the old men?
(a) Mapes and his deputy fired their guns at the crowd.
(b) Mapes slapped them across the face.
(c) Mapes arrested all the man and took them to the town jail.
(d) Mapes arrested Candy.

2. Why was Gable's sixteen-year-old son put to death?
(a) Gable's son ran away from home.
(b) A white woman claimed he raped her.
(c) Gable's son started a fight in town and hit a white man.
(d) Gable's son stared at a white man's wife.

3. Why did Billy miss when he shot at the rabbit?
(a) Billy did not have good eyesight.
(b) Billy was known to be a very bad shot with a gun.
(c) Billy jumped because he thought it was a snake.
(d) Billy heard a shot in the distance that scared him.

4. What war did Coot fight in?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Korea.
(c) WWI.
(d) WWII.

5. What did Yank do in his younger days?
(a) He broke horses and mules.
(b) He worked in the sugar cane fields.
(c) He was a servant.
(d) He worked in a rodeo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Janey work for?

2. Who tells Mat and Chimley that there has been a murder?

3. What did Cherry Bello own?

4. Why had Coot not worn his WWI uniform in years?

5. Mapes asked his deputy to call someone back in town. Who?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had happened on the river that narrowed the fishing area for Chimley and Mat?

2. Who are the Major and Miss Bea?

3. What was the significance of the argument between Mat and his wife?

4. Why did Mapes hit the men and what did it mean? When everybody lined up to be hit by Mapes, what happened?

5. Why did Mapes respect Mathu?

6. What was the significance of Chimley's name?

7. Why did Cherry talk about the fields of cane? What are the fields of cane a symbol of for Cherry's people?

8. Why did Chimley not mind if black people called him by his nickhame, but hated it when white people used his nickname?

9. Who was Tucker's brother and what was the battle that brought man against machine?

10. What are the Major and Miss Bea doing?

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