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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 happens when Charlie and Mapes go out the front door?
(a) Mapes handcuffs Charlie.
(b) The old men follow them out.
(c) The deputy arrests Charlie.
(d) Luke Will shows up.

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

3. What has Charlie done his whole life until today?
(a) Got drunk.
(b) Worked hard on the plantation.
(c) Ran away from anything that scared him.
(d) Killed white men.

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

5. What did Dirty Red keep asking Charlie?
(a) If he believed in God.
(b) If he really killed Beau.
(c) What he'd seen back in the swamps.
(d) If he was going to kill Luke Will and Fix.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack Marshall do every day?

2. Who agreed with Gil?

3. Who really raised Candy?

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

5. Who was calling on God?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Charlie do when the shoot-out begins?

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

6. What is Leroy's reaction to getting shot?

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

8. How many funerals were there?

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

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

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