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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. What position did Gil play on the football team?

2. What kinds of flowers did Jack Toussaint grow?

3. What did Mapes do to try to get the truth from the old men?

4. What did each old black man do and say?

5. What was the women's reaction to Mapes slapping Uncle Billy and Gable?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the Major and Miss Bea doing?

2. Why did Cherry talk about the fields of cane? What are the fields of cane a symbol of for Cherry's people?

3. How do readers know the year this story is taking place?

4. What is the significance of Janey scolding Snookum to call Candy "Miss Candy" and Lou "Mr. Lou?"

5. Who are the Major and Miss Bea?

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

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

8. Why did Mapes respect Mathu?

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

10. What was Johnny Paul talking about when he talked to Mapes about what he couldn't see?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which characters do you think changed the most and the least in this story. Why? What made them change or not change?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Compare Miss Merle and Charlie. How do they represent the past, present and future? What would they like their world's to look like? What will change in Miss Merle's world after the events of the story? How will the friends of Charlie's be changed by his death?

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