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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 Clatoo do with the shoe box?
(a) He hid the shoe box behind the second block under the house.
(b) He hid the shoe box in the field out back.
(c) He hid the shoe box in the kitchen.
(d) He hid the shoe box in the outhouse.

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

3. Who arrived at the end of the chapter?
(a) Fix.
(b) Candy's boyfriend.
(c) Mape's backup.
(d) A lynch mob.

4. Why doesn't Janey tell Miss Bea about the murder?
(a) Miss Bea hated Beau.
(b) She thinks it would be like "talking to a wall."
(c) Miss Bea is still asleep and Janey doesn't want to wake her.
(d) Because Miss Bea in drunk on the porch swing.

5. Who was Tessie?
(a) Jacob's sister.
(b) Chimley's wife.
(c) Jacob's mother.
(d) A white woman who claimed she was raped by Jacob.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Mat and Chimley fish only in one small spot?

2. What did Mapes have in his mouth most of the time?

3. What does Miss Merle tell Janey to do?

4. What was Beulah angry about?

5. Why did Clatoo let the men out of the truck before they arrived at Mathu's?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Clatoo stop the truck before he got to Mathu's?

2. What did Gil's coach want to tell Gill?

3. Why did Mapes respect Mathu?

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

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

6. Why did Candy want more men and more shotguns at Mathu's house?

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 Mat and Chimley wait before they took action?

9. Who are the Major and Miss Bea?

10. What does Janey do when she hears the news of the murder?

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