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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) Luke Will shows up.
(b) Mapes handcuffs Charlie.
(c) The deputy arrests Charlie.
(d) The old men follow them out.

2. What did Dirty Red keep asking Charlie?
(a) If he was going to kill Luke Will and Fix.
(b) What he'd seen back in the swamps.
(c) If he believed in God.
(d) If he really killed Beau.

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

4. What was different about the way Yank hollered?
(a) He hollered in a very low voice.
(b) He hollered with a very southern accent.
(c) He hollered the way you holler at a rodeo.
(d) He hollered just like all the other men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Fix do when Gil did not agree with him?

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

3. What did Candy do when she waved goodbye to the old men?

4. What action did Gil want his father to take about the death of his brother, Beau?

5. Who shows up from the back of the house at the end of the chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did Mapes mean when he told Luke Will that Charlie was now in charge?

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

8. How many days did the trial last?

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

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

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