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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. Why did Beau come after Charlie?

2. Who was sitting on the bed crying?

3. Who shot Mapes?

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

5. What does Luke Will say to Mapes about Charlie?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Charlie prove he is a man?

8. How many funerals were there?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which characters do you think changed the most and the least in this story. Why? What made them change or not change?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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