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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 talks Candy into ending the events of the day?

2. The old men want to talk inside the house alone. They do not want Candy in the house with them. Candy gets very angry. What does Mapes say is Candy's motivation?

3. Where is Snookum when Lou notices him?

4. What was Lou doing in the final moments of the shoot-out?

5. What does Luke Will notice about Tee Jack at the end of the chapter?

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

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

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

6. How many days did the trial last?

7. How many funerals were there?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss man vs. machine. The tractors vs. mules. How had life on the plantation changed due to this invention?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of the black graveyards. What were they symbolizing?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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