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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 did Miss Merle see when she turned into the quarters?

3. Where does Janey say that Miss Bea and Major are?

4. What position did Gil play on the football team?

5. What does Snookum see at Mathu's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the significance of Chimley's name?

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

3. Why did Mat and Chimley wait before they took action?

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

5. What was happening to the black graveyards?

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

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

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

9. Why was Gil torn between love for his family and sadness over their past actions?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the story of Fix and his men. Had anything changed through the years? What had changed?

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