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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 action did Gil want his father to take about the death of his brother, Beau?
(a) Gil wanted his father, Fix, to talk to Mathu.
(b) Gil wanted to let the police arrest the suspect.
(c) Gil wanted Sully to talk to Mathu.
(d) Gil wanted to form a lynch mob and pick up Mathu.

2. What does Tee Jack do to calm Luke Will and his friends?
(a) Tee Jack gives Luke Will and his boys liquor for free.
(b) Tee Jack tell the professor to shut up.
(c) Tee Jack offers to help with the lynching.
(d) Tee Jack reminds Luke Will that his store/bar is still segregated.

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

4. The old men want to talk inside the house alone. They do not want Candy in the house with them. Candy gets very angry. What does Mapes say is Candy's motivation?
(a) She is trying to protect them, but it will do no good.
(b) She does not run the Marshall plantation, and she wants to be in charge.
(c) She wants to keep them all slaves.
(d) She blames Mathu for her upbringing.

5. What would bring the court to laughing?
(a) When people saw the men all banged up and bandaged.
(b) When people walked by outside.
(c) When they saw Judge Reynolds.
(d) When nicknames for the old men were used in court.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who really raised Candy?

2. Why did Mathu look down on all the other old black men?

3. How old is Charlie?

4. Who was calling on God?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

7. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

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

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

10. How many funerals were there?

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