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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who digs up the grave?
(a) Mr Gowrie
(b) Mr. Gowrie's sons
(c) The black prisoners
(d) The sherrif

2. Why does the sheriff think that Lucas did not kill Vinson?
(a) Lucas would never shoot a man in the back
(b) The wound could not of been created by Lucas's gun
(c) The killer was shooting from further away
(d) Vinson shot himself

3. What is the name of Lucas's wife?
(a) Jane
(b) Molly
(c) Baby Suggs
(d) Andrea

4. Why does the sheriff put Lucas in a cell usually reserved for white prisoners?
(a) Lucas has a white man's mind
(b) To tempt him into hanging himself
(c) He will be safer there
(d) To give him a good nights sleep

5. What do the twins find in the pine coffin?
(a) Vinson
(b) Montgomerie
(c) A sack of potatoes
(d) Nothing

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must they hide the truck when they reach the cemetery?

2. Who ends up riding the horse home?

3. Which one of the Gowrie clan is a draft dodger?

4. What moment of the story does Charles think back to?

5. Where does Gavin suggest the bodies could be buried?

(see the answer key)

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