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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. According to Chimley's story, who got in a fistfight with Fix?

2. Where did the group of old men walk to?

3. What did Mapes have in his mouth most of the time?

4. What did Candy say to Miss Merle when she saw her?

5. Who arrived at the end of the chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Gil's coach want to tell Gill?

2. What are the Major and Miss Bea doing?

3. Who was Oliver?

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

5. What was happening to the black graveyards?

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

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

8. Who are the Major and Miss Bea?

9. What was the nature of the relationship between Candy and Lou?

10. Why did Clatoo stop the truck before he got to Mathu's?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you feel that Fix and Gil reconciled? Why? Will their lives be different? Will Fix change? Will Gill pull away from his family or join them?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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