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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. When Miss Merle arrives back at the Marshall house, what does she tell Bea?

2. Who carried his gun like a soldier?

3. What are the tractor's getting closer and closer to?

4. When Miss Merle is talking about "Jack" who is she referring to?

5. What was so important about the "Salt and Pepper" football duo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What color was the dress Corrine wore and the color of the bedspread used to cover the body? Why is this important?

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

6. Who were Salt and Pepper?

7. Who was Oliver?

8. What was the significance of empty number five shells?

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

10. What are the Major and Miss Bea doing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss past, present and future. What characters in this story represent the past? The present? The future?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Candy and Beau. How are they the same? Different? What did they mean to their people? How could they change the future?

Essay Topic 3

What did the Cajuns come to symbolize to the black people on the river?

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