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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 people call Sully T.V.?

2. Who did Ella call?

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

4. Why did Chimley not like white people calling him by his nickname?

5. What war did Coot fight in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Mathu look down on some of the men who came to help him?

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

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

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

7. What are the Major and Miss Bea doing?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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