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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. When did Chimley not mind being called by his nickname?
(a) When his momma talked to him.
(b) When his friends were talking to him.
(c) When Mr. Lou talked to him.
(d) When Candy talked to him.

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

3. How did Clatoo know that Candy was lying?
(a) She couldn't remember where the body was.
(b) Her story was too practiced.
(c) She slipped and told Clatoo that Mathu killed Beau.
(d) She mixed up the facts about the time of death.

4. Which animal did Janey say Miss Merle looked like?
(a) An alligator.
(b) An owl.
(c) A bear.
(d) A fish.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Chimley keep his number five shells?

2. How did Tucker's brother Silas get into trouble with white people?

3. When Miss Merle arrives at Mathu's house, what is the first thing that happens?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Gil torn between love for his family and sadness over their past actions?

2. Why did Jacob feel bad about the death of his sister Tessie when he had nothing to do with her murder?

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

4. Who are the Major and Miss Bea?

5. How does the reader know where the story is taking place?

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

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

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

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

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

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