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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 did Miss Merle bring?

3. What would bring the court to laughing?

4. Once the old men are in the field, what do they do?

5. What action did Gil want his father to take about the death of his brother, Beau?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Mapes mean when he told Luke Will that Charlie was now in charge?

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

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

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

6. Who did Mapes put in charge after he was wounded?

7. When the shoot-out began, how did the old black men get organized and decide what to do?

8. How many funerals were there?

9. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

10. Why is it important that this chapter is narrated by a child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Which characters do you think changed the most and the least in this story. Why? What made them change or not change?

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