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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 is the "nigger room" in Tee Jack's store?

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

3. Where is Snookum when Lou notices him?

4. The narrater of this chapter is on which side of the shoot-out?

5. Why did Beau come after Charlie?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How many days did the trial last?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Mapes change from the beginning of the story to the end of the story?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Mapes slapping the men and Miss Merle slapping Janey. What did each of these events symbolize? How are they the same? Different?

Essay Topic 3

How did a different person narrating each chapter change the story? What would have been different if Lou Dimes had narrated all the chapters? Or Chimley. Or Candy. Or Clatoo?

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