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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 phrase does Charlie keep saying over and over again?
(a) I killed Beau.
(b) I need a tractor to work in the fields.
(c) I'm a man.
(d) I need a better house.

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

3. Who narrates this chapter?
(a) Snookum.
(b) Lou.
(c) Chimley
(d) Mapes.

4. 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.

5. 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 finish their drinks and leave.
(c) Luke Will's gang asks for supplies for the lynching from Tee Jack but he refuses.
(d) Luke Will's gang sits in the "nigger room" to finish their drinks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who agreed with Gil?

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

3. Who was sitting on the bed crying?

4. Who really raised Candy?

5. Who is the first person to get shot in the shoot-out?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Charlie prove he is a man?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

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