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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. How did the fight start between Fix and Mathu?

2. Which animal did Janey say Miss Merle looked like?

3. Who helped raise Candy?

4. Why is Gil upset with Mapes, the sheriff?

5. Who carried his gun like a soldier?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the significance of Mat's full name?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why did Chimley not mind if black people called him by his nickhame, but hated it when white people used his nickname?

9. Why did Mapes respect Mathu?

10. What are the Major and Miss Bea doing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How will this town be different in the future? Will the events of this day make an impact and really change things, or will everything go back to the way it always was?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

How did a different person narrating each chapter change the story? What would have been different if Lou Dimes had narrated all the chapters? Or Chimley. Or Candy. Or Clatoo?

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