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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 was happening the next day?

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

3. What did Chimley tell his wife when he left the house?

4. What happened when Mat returned home with his fish?

5. How did Chimley fire his gun?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had happened on the river that narrowed the fishing area for Chimley and Mat?

2. Why was Bea unconcerned that Beau had been killed?

3. What does Janey do when she hears the news of the murder?

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

5. Who were Salt and Pepper?

6. What was the significance of the argument between Mat and his wife?

7. Who was Tucker's brother and what was the battle that brought man against machine?

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

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

10. What did it mean when they saw dust on the road? What was this a symbol of?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Mapes and Mathu. Describe their friendship. Why are they important to their own people? How will their lives change from the events of this day?

Essay Topic 3

Relationships between white and black in this town in the Deep South. Explain the relationships between the black and white people in this town. Why didn't they change after slavery and after civil rights? Why is this town so far behind the times?

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