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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. Who was sitting in Fix's lap?

2. What did Lou tell Mapes when he crawled over to him?

3. Why were the old black men going to the back of the house one at a time?

4. Who shows up from the back of the house at the end of the chapter?

5. Why did Mathu look down on all the other old black men?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

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

3. How did Mapes get the group of old men to decide to end the evening?

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

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

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

7. What did Miss Merle do to show her disgust at the crowd of old black men?

8. How was Gil welcomed by the people gathered at his father's house?

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

10. How many funerals were there?

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 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 3

How was Gil's life different from his family? How was he torn between the two worlds?

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