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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. Who in the store (bar) thinks that the police should handle the murder?
(a) Jack Marshall
(b) Tee Jack.
(c) Robert.
(d) The quiet professor.

2. What does Luke Will's gang do at the end of the chapter?
(a) Luke Will's gang threatens Tee Jack that they will be back.
(b) Luke Will's gang asks for supplies for the lynching from Tee Jack but he refuses.
(c) Luke Will's gang sits in the "nigger room" to finish their drinks.
(d) Luke Will's gang finish their drinks and leave.

3. The narrater of this chapter is on which side of the shoot-out?
(a) Mapes is not on anyone's side, but is now defending himself against Luke Will's gang.
(b) Charlie is on his own side.
(c) Snookum is on Candy's side.
(d) Sharp is on Luke Will's side.

4. The old men want to talk inside the house alone. They do not want Candy in the house with them. Candy gets very angry. What does Mapes say is Candy's motivation?
(a) She blames Mathu for her upbringing.
(b) She wants to keep them all slaves.
(c) She is trying to protect them, but it will do no good.
(d) She does not run the Marshall plantation, and she wants to be in charge.

5. What has Charlie done his whole life until today?
(a) Killed white men.
(b) Got drunk.
(c) Worked hard on the plantation.
(d) Ran away from anything that scared him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Charlie and Mapes go out the front door?

2. Who were the three funerals for?

3. Where did Snookum hide during the shoot-out?

4. Once the old men are in the field, what do they do?

5. Why did Mathu look down on all the other old black men?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

2. What is Leroy's reaction to getting shot?

3. What does Charlie do when the shoot-out begins?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Charlie prove he is a man?

9. Who did Mapes put in charge after he was wounded?

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

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