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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. Why do Mat and Chimley fish only in one small spot?
(a) Because they play cards at the same place.
(b) Because that is the best place to catch fish.
(c) Because they are hiding from the white people.
(d) The white people have bought up the land along the river and left little room to fish.

2. Why did Glo hang on to Clatoo's hand a little longer?
(a) She was worried about Fix arriving and she was proud of all the old black men.
(b) She wanted to pray with Clatoo.
(c) She had once loved Clatoo.
(d) She didn't walk well and needed help to stand to greet him.

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

4. What was the women's reaction to Mapes slapping Uncle Billy and Gable?
(a) They ran over and tried to stop Mapes.
(b) They moaned but did not move.
(c) They prayed.
(d) They yelled at Mapes.

5. What did Chimley's wife say when Chimley came home?
(a) She told him to wipe his feet at the door.
(b) She asked him where he'd been.
(c) She didn't want to clean the fish.
(d) She asked him if he was going to play cards that evening.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Candy ask Corrine to get from inside the house?

2. Why did Miss Merle bring a pie?

3. When Ella tried to call the sheriff, what did Mat do?

4. Who carried his gun like a soldier?

5. Why did Chimley not like white people calling him by his nickname?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Bea unconcerned that Beau had been killed?

2. Why did Mathu look down on some of the men who came to help him?

3. What was happening to the black graveyards?

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

5. How did each man claim responsibility for the murder of Beau?

6. What are the Major and Miss Bea doing?

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

8. Why was it important for the author to show violence against women in the black community?

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

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

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