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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Charles buy the tobacco?
(a) The pharmacy
(b) The saloon
(c) The tobbaconist
(d) The super market
2. Where does Uncle Gavin tell Lucas he shot the man?
(a) In the back
(b) In the kidney
(c) Between the eyes
(d) In the groin
3. What do the black prisoners normally do?
(a) Hit the bars with their metal plates
(b) Spit at passers by
(c) Stand at the window and call out
(d) Sing the blues
4. What does Lucas want Charles to do?
(a) Help him escape
(b) Dig up Gowrie's body
(c) Kill him
(d) Shoot the sheriff
5. Who does Charles go home to speak to?
(a) Aleck
(b) Uncle Gavin
(c) His father
(d) His mother
6. What does Paralee's father say men concentrate too much on?
(a) Love
(b) Intuition
(c) Facts
(d) Money
7. Where does the Lucas's wife sit?
(a) In a rocking chair by the fire
(b) On a stool next to the stove
(c) On the table
(d) On the rug by the fire
8. What does Charles say Will is reading?
(a) The funny papers
(b) Das Capital
(c) A newsletter
(d) Dashiel Hammet
9. What does Charles ask Aleck Sander to do?
(a) Saddle up his horse
(b) Get the car keys from his father
(c) Talk to Gavin
(d) Find some spades
10. When does Will Legate join the group at the sheriff's house?
(a) Dawn
(b) 10 a.m.
(c) Midday
(d) 8 a.m.
11. What does Charles ask if he can take to Lucas?
(a) A pork pie
(b) A coca-cola
(c) Tobacco
(d) A guitar
12. Who does Charles meet for the first time when he climbs out of the water?
(a) Lucas Beachamp
(b) Gavin Stevens
(c) Aleck Sander
(d) His father
13. What kind of job did Montgomery have?
(a) Gambler
(b) Undertaker
(c) Timber buyer
(d) Barman
14. Why does Lucas accept Gavin's story?
(a) Because he knows he will die anyway
(b) Because he is too tired to contradict him
(c) Because he no longer wants to hire him
(d) Because he knows Gavin thinks he is guilty
15. Why are the black prisoners afraid to make a noise?
(a) They may by mistaken for Lucas
(b) They will not get fed
(c) Too much noise will set off a time bomb
(d) The sheriff is asleep
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Charles realize when Lucas notices him?
2. Who does Charles find his uncle speaking to?
3. What county is Montgomery from?
4. What does Charles leave in the water?
5. What does Lucas demand Charles does?
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