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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the sheriff reluctant to do anything?
(a) It is a waste of public resources
(b) No one cares what happens to Lucas
(c) He does not want to anger the Goweries'
(d) They do not know who the person on the mule was

2. What kind of job did Montgomery have?
(a) Timber buyer
(b) Barman
(c) Gambler
(d) Undertaker

3. Who does the sheriff phone to organize an exhumation order?
(a) The district attourney
(b) The senator
(c) The local judge
(d) The president

4. Where does Gavin suggest the bodies could be buried?
(a) In the desert
(b) In the woods
(c) Under a patio
(d) In the mountains

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Lucas's wife sit?

2. What county is Montgomery from?

3. Who digs the grave?

4. Why does the sheriff think that Lucas did not kill Vinson?

5. What does Mr. Gowrie do with his son's dead body?

(see the answer key)

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