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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. Why did Mat decide to go to Mathu's?

2. What happened to Oliver?

3. What did Mat tell his wife about the shotguns?

4. Who baked the apple pie?

5. What kind of a cap was Chimley wearing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Mathu look down on some of the men who came to help him?

3. How did each man claim responsibility for the murder of Beau?

4. Who were Salt and Pepper?

5. Why did Mapes hit the men and what did it mean? When everybody lined up to be hit by Mapes, what happened?

6. Who is Janey and who does she work for?

7. What color was the dress Corrine wore and the color of the bedspread used to cover the body? Why is this important?

8. How did Gable describe the death of his sixteen-year-old son?

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

10. Why did Candy want more men and more shotguns at Mathu's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How was Gil's life different from his family? How was he torn between the two worlds?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Light-skinned blacks vs. dark-skinned blacks. Explain what is happening in this story between the people who are light-skinned and the people who are dark-skinned. How did these prejudices begin?

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