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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 did Fix do when Gil did not agree with him?
(a) Fix insisted that Gil raise Beau's son.
(b) Fix had his gang run Gil out of town.
(c) Fix banished Gil from the house.
(d) Fix did not speak to Gil inside the house.

2. What did Lou tell Mapes when he crawled over to him?
(a) "You're in the way."
(b) "We have to move you."
(c) "Your deputy resigned."
(d) "You're hit."

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

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

5. What does Jack Marshall do every day?
(a) Jack Marshall runs the Marshall plantation with his niece Candy.
(b) Jack Marshall comes into Tee Jack's store and drinks and stares at the door to the "nigger room."
(c) Jack Marshall is the head of the lynch mob.
(d) Jack Marshall runs the concrete plant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shot Mapes?

2. When Luke Will ran out of shells, what did Charlie offer?

3. Why were the old black men going to the back of the house one at a time?

4. What was Leroy's reaction?

5. The narrater of this chapter is on which side of the shoot-out?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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