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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. The narrater of this chapter is on which side of the shoot-out?

2. What does Luke Will say to Mapes about Charlie?

3. What was Leroy's reaction?

4. Who was calling on God?

5. Why did Beau come after Charlie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

2. Why did Fix need all his sons to agree on a course of action?

3. How were the old men getting a bathroom break?

4. How many funerals were there?

5. Who came in from the kitchen and what was he doing there?

6. Describe the final moments of the shoot-out.

7. Why did Mapes call Charlie "Mr. Biggs?"

8. What does Charlie do when the shoot-out begins?

9. What was the "nigger room" a symbol of?

10. Why was it important for Charlie to come forward and confess to the murder of Beau?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Miss Merle and Charlie. How do they represent the past, present and future? What would they like their world's to look like? What will change in Miss Merle's world after the events of the story? How will the friends of Charlie's be changed by his death?

Essay Topic 2

Why were the old black men brave now but hadn't been before?

Essay Topic 3

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

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