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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 need a better house.
(b) I need a tractor to work in the fields.
(c) I killed Beau.
(d) I'm a man.

2. Who were the three funerals for?
(a) Beau, Luke Will and Mathu.
(b) Mapes, Leroy and Luke Will.
(c) Luke Will, Beau, and Charlie.
(d) Charlie, Mapes and Luke Will.

3. What does Jack Marshall do every day?
(a) Jack Marshall runs the concrete plant.
(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 Marshall plantation with his niece Candy.

4. How did Candy's mother and father die?
(a) In a plane crash.
(b) Working in the fields.
(c) Of natural causes.
(d) In a car wreck.

5. Who welcomed Gil at the door of his father's house?
(a) Fix.
(b) Sully.
(c) Russell.
(d) Jean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luke Will say to Mapes about Charlie?

2. How far did Charlie go before he was hit?

3. Who picks up Candy and puts her in his car?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Charlie prove he is a man?

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

9. Why is it important that this chapter is narrated by a child?

10. How many funerals were there?

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