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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. Where is Snookum when Lou notices him?

2. What did Lou tell Mapes when he crawled over to him?

3. Who does Charlie call Parrain?

4. What does Snookum say that almost gives away Candy's entire plan?

5. What happens when Charlie and Mapes go out the front door?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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 was Gil's life different from his family? How was he torn between the two worlds?

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