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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. Why do the old men call Mapes into the house?
(a) Charlie is afraid of Fix and wants police protection.
(b) Charlie wants to challenge Mapes.
(c) Mapes told them they had 15 minutes and the old men know their time is up.
(d) Charlie wants to confess to the murder and turn himself in.

2. What did Miss Merle bring?
(a) More empty shells.
(b) Sandwiches in baskets.
(c) Four more men.
(d) More guns.

3. What did Mathu ask Snookum to get from the house when the sandwiches came?
(a) Ice water.
(b) More guns.
(c) Plates and forks.
(d) Beer.

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

5. The narrater of this chapter is on which side of the shoot-out?
(a) Sharp is on Luke Will's side.
(b) Charlie is on his own side.
(c) Mapes is not on anyone's side, but is now defending himself against Luke Will's gang.
(d) Snookum is on Candy's side.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tee Jack do to calm Luke Will and his friends?

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

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

4. Once the old men are in the field, what do they do?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How many days did the trial last?

10. How does Charlie prove he is a man?

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