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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 happens when Charlie and Mapes go out the front door?
(a) Mapes handcuffs Charlie.
(b) The deputy arrests Charlie.
(c) The old men follow them out.
(d) Luke Will shows up.

2. Who did Luke Will say was in charge?
(a) Leroy.
(b) Charlie.
(c) Mathu.
(d) Lou.

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

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

5. What does Charlie do before he charges Luke Will?
(a) Shoots Leroy.
(b) Decides to give up.
(c) Yells at Luke Will to give up.
(d) Smokes a cigarette.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days did the trail go on?

2. Who was sitting in Fix's lap?

3. Who gets shot and cannot move from his position?

4. What is the "nigger room" in Tee Jack's store?

5. What did Miss Merle bring?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How many funerals were there?

4. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

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

6. Why was it important for Charlie to come forward and confess to the murder of Beau?

7. How were the old men getting a bathroom break?

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

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

10. How many days did the trial last?

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