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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the only man who didn't have a gun?

2. Where did Chimley keep his number five shells?

3. What did Candy ask Snookum to do?

4. When Miss Merle arrives at Mathu's house, what is the first thing that happens?

5. Who tells Mat and Chimley that there has been a murder?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Gil's coach want to tell Gill?

2. Why did Miss Merle slap Janey and why did Janey stand there and take it?

3. What are the Major and Miss Bea doing?

4. What was the goal of Reverend Jameson?

5. Why did Jacob feel bad about the death of his sister Tessie when he had nothing to do with her murder?

6. How does the reader know where the story is taking place?

7. How can readers tell that Gram Mon is poor?

8. Why did Clatoo stop the truck before he got to Mathu's?

9. What was the nature of the relationship between Candy and Lou?

10. Why did all the men shoot their guns once?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did the Cajuns come to symbolize to the black people on the river?

Essay Topic 2

How did Mapes change from the beginning of the story to the end of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss man vs. machine. The tractors vs. mules. How had life on the plantation changed due to this invention?

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