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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 picks up Candy and puts her in his car?
(a) Mathu.
(b) Lou Dimes.
(c) Johnny Paul.
(d) Mapes.

2. Who agreed with Gil?
(a) His brother Jean.
(b) Luke Will.
(c) His brother Claude.
(d) Fix.

3. Who gets shot and cannot move from his position?
(a) Mapes.
(b) Luke Will.
(c) Lou Dimes.
(d) Candy.

4. Who is the first person to get shot in the shoot-out?
(a) Snookum.
(b) Mathu.
(c) Mapes.
(d) Lou.

5. What was Leroy's reaction?
(a) He got mad and starting firing his gun as fast as he could.
(b) He laughed.
(c) He was sniveling.
(d) He had trouble aiming his gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who talks Candy into ending the events of the day?

2. What did Dirty Red keep asking Charlie?

3. What was Lou doing in the final moments of the shoot-out?

4. What do all the old black men, and women and children do after Charlie dies?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Charlie prove he is a man?

3. How many funerals were there?

4. What was the "nigger room" a symbol of?

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

6. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

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

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

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

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

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