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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. What do all the old black men, and women and children do after Charlie dies?

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

4. What does Luke Will's gang do at the end of the chapter?

5. Who does Charlie call Parrain?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 3

How did each person telling their story make an impact on the story as a whole?

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