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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why can Charles not take the car?
(a) He cannot drive
(b) His father has the keys
(c) It has no engine
(d) It has no wheels
2. How do the character know the grave has been disturbed?
(a) There are footprints
(b) There are fresh cigarette butts on the ground
(c) The flowers have been disturbed
(d) The coffin is lying empty next to the grave
3. Who does Charles go home to speak to?
(a) His mother
(b) Uncle Gavin
(c) His father
(d) Aleck
4. What kind of hat does Lucas wear?
(a) A top hat
(b) A Davy Crotchett hat
(c) A beaver hat
(d) A cowboy hat
5. When is Charles afraid the the town folk will lynch Lucas?
(a) When the sheriff transfers him to his jail
(b) When he is at his court hearing
(c) While he is chained to a bed post
(d) When he is released on bail
6. Where did Lucas have his gun when they found him standing over the dead man?
(a) In his hand
(b) In his pocket
(c) On the floor by his feet
(d) In the waistband of his pants
7. What does Lucas get arrested for?
(a) Tax fraud
(b) Shooting a local man
(c) Bank robbery
(d) Devil worship
8. Why must they hide the truck when they reach the cemetery?
(a) It is an expensive truck
(b) The truck is stolen
(c) The sheriff is guarding the grave
(d) In case the Gowries are near by
9. Why does the sheriff put Lucas in a cell usually reserved for white prisoners?
(a) To give him a good nights sleep
(b) He will be safer there
(c) To tempt him into hanging himself
(d) Lucas has a white man's mind
10. What does the rider have on the horse with him?
(a) A dead man
(b) A rifle
(c) A dead animal
(d) They could not see
11. Why do they think that no one will lynch Lucas with Miss Habersham keeping guard?
(a) Because she is a woman
(b) Because she knows all their mothers
(c) Because she is the best shot in the state
(d) Because she is enaged to the senator
12. What does the constable chain Lucas to?
(a) A railing
(b) The murder victim
(c) A bed post
(d) A car handle
13. Who does the Sheriff and Uncle Gavin want to sit out in front of the jail?
(a) Miss Habersham
(b) Will Legate
(c) Charles
(d) Aleck
14. What make of gun does Lucas own?
(a) Adams
(b) A Heckler and Koch
(c) A Remington
(d) A Colt .41
15. What does Charles do when they hear the mule?
(a) Drives off the road
(b) Greets the mule and its rider cordially
(c) Shoots at the mule blindly
(d) Asks who it is
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Charles consider doing so he does not have to see Lucas lynched?
2. Who does Lucas remind Charles of?
3. What does Charles ask Aleck Sander to do?
4. Who has the sheriff hired to look after Lucas?
5. What is the name of the novel's narrator?
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