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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 does Snookum say that almost gives away Candy's entire plan?
(a) Snookum says he wants another sandwich because Candy didn't give him anything to run and get everybody.
(b) Snookum says Gram Mon wants a second sandwich because she was cooking dinner when someone shot Beau.
(c) Snookum says he wants some ice water or he will tell Mapes who shot Beau.
(d) Snookum says that Candy promised him sandwiches if he would keep his mouth shut.

2. What does Tee Jack do to calm Luke Will and his friends?
(a) Tee Jack reminds Luke Will that his store/bar is still segregated.
(b) Tee Jack tell the professor to shut up.
(c) Tee Jack offers to help with the lynching.
(d) Tee Jack gives Luke Will and his boys liquor for free.

3. What did Mathu ask Snookum to get from the house when the sandwiches came?
(a) More guns.
(b) Beer.
(c) Plates and forks.
(d) Ice water.

4. Who talks Candy into ending the events of the day?
(a) Mapes.
(b) Lou.
(c) Mathu.
(d) Johnny Paul.

5. Why did Mathu look down on all the other old black men?
(a) They were cowards and never stood up for themselves.
(b) They owned their own houses, and Mathu still worked on the Marshall land.
(c) They did not work as hard at Mathu.
(d) They were not as dark skinned as Mathu, they were not as African.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days did the trail go on?

2. Who does Charlie call Parrain?

3. Who is the first person to get shot in the shoot-out?

4. What does Luke Will's gang do at the end of the chapter?

5. What has Charlie done his whole life until today?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the final moments of the shoot-out.

2. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

3. When the shoot-out began, how did the old black men get organized and decide what to do?

4. How many days did the trial last?

5. How did Mapes get the group of old men to decide to end the evening?

6. Why did Fix need all his sons to agree on a course of action?

7. Why did Mapes call Charlie "Mr. Biggs?"

8. How was Gil welcomed by the people gathered at his father's house?

9. Who came in from the kitchen and what was he doing there?

10. What did Miss Merle do to show her disgust at the crowd of old black men?

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