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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 Luke Will notice about Tee Jack at the end of the chapter?

2. Who talks Candy into ending the events of the day?

3. Who narrates this chapter?

4. Once the old men are in the field, what do they do?

5. When Luke Will ran out of shells, what did Charlie offer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How many days did the trial last?

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

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

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

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

How will this town be different in the future? Will the events of this day make an impact and really change things, or will everything go back to the way it always was?

Essay Topic 3

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

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