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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two women doing outside the jail?
(a) Sewing
(b) Dancing
(c) Cleaning
(d) Cooking

2. What does Lucas demand Charles does?
(a) Talk to his wife
(b) Cook him dinner
(c) Tell a joke
(d) Warm himself by the fire

3. When is Charles afraid the the town folk will lynch Lucas?
(a) When he is released on bail
(b) When the sheriff transfers him to his jail
(c) When he is at his court hearing
(d) While he is chained to a bed post

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

5. What does Uncle Gavin say is the unwritten code of the south?
(a) That life is for living
(b) That white people are superior
(c) That everyone should go to church
(d) That the family of the victim should be alllowed to hang the black man responsible

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Charles wake up when he gets home?

2. What was Lucas buying from the shop before the altercation?

3. Where does Charles eat his breakfast?

4. When does Will Legate join the group at the sheriff's house?

5. What does Charles notice about the roads?

(see the answer key)

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