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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 agreed with Gil?

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

3. Who were the three funerals for?

4. What was Leroy's reaction?

5. What did Dirty Red keep asking Charlie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How many funerals were there?

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

10. What is Leroy's reaction to getting shot?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you feel that Fix and Gil reconciled? Why? Will their lives be different? Will Fix change? Will Gill pull away from his family or join them?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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