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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who rides the horse from the truck to the cemetery?
(a) Gavin
(b) Charles
(c) Aleck
(d) Miss Habersham

2. What does Charles say Will is reading?
(a) The funny papers
(b) Das Capital
(c) Dashiel Hammet
(d) A newsletter

3. How would Charles leave town?
(a) Catch a train
(b) Walk
(c) Take his father's car
(d) Ride away on his pony

4. What does the rider have on the horse with him?
(a) A dead man
(b) They could not see
(c) A dead animal
(d) A rifle

5. Who is the sheriff bringing to jail?
(a) Charles Mallison
(b) Carothers Edmunds
(c) Lucas Beachamp
(d) Gavin Stevens

6. Who do they find inside the coffin?
(a) Vinson Gowrie
(b) Montgomery
(c) The sheriff
(d) Lucas

7. Who does Lucas order to pick the money up from the floor?
(a) Mr Edmonds
(b) Molly
(c) The two black boys
(d) Charles

8. What does Charles realize when Lucas notices him?
(a) He is innocent
(b) He still owes him a debt
(c) He has a good memory
(d) He is guilty

9. What day do they bury the murdered man?
(a) Saturday
(b) Sunday
(c) Monday
(d) Tuesday

10. Who does Charles meet for the first time when he climbs out of the water?
(a) Aleck Sander
(b) Gavin Stevens
(c) His father
(d) Lucas Beachamp

11. Where does Charles end up throwing the coins?
(a) In the creek
(b) At Lucas
(c) Into the sea
(d) Down a well

12. Why are the black prisoners afraid to make a noise?
(a) The sheriff is asleep
(b) They will not get fed
(c) They may by mistaken for Lucas
(d) Too much noise will set off a time bomb

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

14. Who does Charles ride into town with to see Lucas?
(a) Lucas
(b) The sheriff
(c) Uncle Gavin
(d) Aleck

15. Where does Charles buy the tobacco?
(a) The tobbaconist
(b) The super market
(c) The saloon
(d) The pharmacy

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paralee's father say men concentrate too much on?

2. What does Charles ask if he can take to Lucas?

3. When is Charles afraid the the town folk will lynch Lucas?

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

5. On what day does Charles meet Lucas for the second time?

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