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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. What does Charlie do before he charges Luke Will?

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

3. How old is Charlie?

4. Who is the first person to get shot in the shoot-out?

5. What phrase does Charlie keep saying over and over again?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Charlie prove he is a man?

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

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

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

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

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

Light-skinned blacks vs. dark-skinned blacks. Explain what is happening in this story between the people who are light-skinned and the people who are dark-skinned. How did these prejudices begin?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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