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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 was the coroner afraid to get out of his car?
(a) The deputy told him not to move.
(b) He realized that all the old black men were armed.
(c) Mapes looked angry because it took him so long to get there.
(d) Candy threatened to shoot him.

2. What had Janey heard that made her believe Snookum's story?
(a) Miss Bea coming in the door.
(b) Fix's car coming down the road.
(c) A shot.
(d) The Major waking up.

3. How did the fight start between Fix and Mathu?
(a) It started over a Coke bottle.
(b) Fix took a Coke without paying for it.
(c) Mathu stared at Fix as he was drinking a Coke.
(d) Fix took Mathu's Coke from him.

4. What did the men begin saying one at a time?
(a) How much they each hated Beau.
(b) That they were hungry.
(c) That they would never leave.
(d) They each confessed to the murder of Beau.

5. Where did the group of old men walk to?
(a) The black graveyard.
(b) To the bank of the river.
(c) Back to Dirty Red's house.
(d) To the cane fields.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Chimley not mind being called by his nickname?

3. When Gil and Sully arrived at the Marshall quarters, Sully thought it looked like an episode from what T.V. show?

4. Why was Gable's sixteen-year-old son put to death?

5. Why did Jacob feel bad about his sister's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are the Major and Miss Bea doing?

4. Who was Oliver?

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

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

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

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

9. Why did Mapes respect Mathu?

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

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