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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 Mat tell his wife about the shotguns?
(a) There was trouble at Mathu's house.
(b) He said they were going hunting.
(c) He saw some rabbits he wanted to shoot.
(d) There was a lynch mob on the way.

2. How did Mapes, the sheriff, prove that Uncle Billy could not have shot Beau?
(a) Mapes told Uncle Billy to shoot Mathu.
(b) Mapes noticed how thick Uncle Billy's glasses were.
(c) Mapes looked at Uncle Billy's gun.
(d) Mapes asked Uncle Billy to aim at one of the bean poles and shoot.

3. Who baked the apple pie?
(a) Miss Merle.
(b) Miss Bea.
(c) Janey.
(d) Lucy, Miss Merle's servant.

4. Who is Snookum's grandmother?
(a) Candy
(b) Mathu
(c) Gram Mon
(d) Janey

5. Janey calls two people on the phone. Who are they?
(a) Lou Dimes and Miss Merle.
(b) Mathu and Candy.
(c) Toddy and Minnie.
(d) Miss Bea and the Major.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Janey keep looking down toward the highway?

2. What was Chimley sitting on while he was fishing?

3. Where does Lou Dimes work?

4. Where did the group walk to at the end of the chapter?

5. What are the tractor's getting closer and closer to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did all the men shoot their guns once?

2. Why did Miss Merle slap Janey and why did Janey stand there and take it?

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

4. How can readers tell that Gram Mon is poor?

5. Who is Janey and who does she work for?

6. What was happening to the black graveyards?

7. What was the nature of the relationship between Candy and Lou?

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

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

10. Why did Mat and Chimley wait before they took action?

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