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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 Tee Jack do to calm Luke Will and his friends?

2. What does Charlie do before he charges Luke Will?

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

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

5. What did Candy do when she waved goodbye to the old men?

Short Essay Questions

1. How many days did the trial last?

2. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss past, present and future. What characters in this story represent the past? The present? The future?

Essay Topic 3

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

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