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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. Who shows up from the back of the house at the end of the chapter?
(a) Lou Dimes.
(b) Luke Will.
(c) Fix.
(d) Charlie Biggs.

2. When Luke Will ran out of shells, what did Charlie offer?
(a) To kill him.
(b) More shells.
(c) To stop the shoot-out.
(d) To surrender.

3. How far did Charlie go before he was hit?
(a) Across the yard.
(b) To the ditch.
(c) Three or Four steps.
(d) To the tractor.

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

5. Who was sitting in Fix's lap?
(a) Beau's wife.
(b) Fix's son.
(c) Fix's wife.
(d) Beau's son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Snookum when Lou notices him?

2. What phrase does Charlie keep saying over and over again?

3. What does Luke Will's gang do at the end of the chapter?

4. What does Luke Will notice about Tee Jack at the end of the chapter?

5. Where did Snookum hide during the shoot-out?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How many funerals were there?

6. How many days did the trial last?

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

8. How does Charlie prove he is a man?

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

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

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