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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uncle Gavin say a black man is expected to do in the south?
(a) Lose his temper and kill a white man
(b) Serve the white man
(c) Smile and play music
(d) Give himself up for lynching

2. What is the name of the novel's narrator?
(a) Carothers Edmunds
(b) Charles Mallison
(c) Gavin Stevens
(d) Lucas Beachamp

3. What does Lucas want Charles to do?
(a) Kill him
(b) Shoot the sheriff
(c) Help him escape
(d) Dig up Gowrie's body

4. Who does the Sheriff and Uncle Gavin want to sit out in front of the jail?
(a) Aleck
(b) Will Legate
(c) Miss Habersham
(d) Charles

5. What does Charles leave in the water?
(a) His socks
(b) His pants
(c) His wallet
(d) His rifle

6. What is the name of the man Lucas has been accused of killing?
(a) Vinson Gowrie
(b) James Buff
(c) Jock Stevens
(d) Gavin Stevens

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

8. What is the sheriff doing when they arrive at his house?
(a) Arranging a lynching
(b) Watching television
(c) Eating breakfast
(d) Arguing with his wife

9. What does Charles do with the money when Lucas refuses it?
(a) Gives it to Aleck
(b) Throws it on the floor
(c) Swallows it
(d) Pockets it

10. When does Will Legate join the group at the sheriff's house?
(a) 10 a.m.
(b) Midday
(c) 8 a.m.
(d) Dawn

11. 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

12. What is the name of Lucas's wife?
(a) Molly
(b) Andrea
(c) Jane
(d) Baby Suggs

13. What does Charles consider doing so he does not have to see Lucas lynched?
(a) Killing Lucas
(b) Killing himself
(c) Leaving town
(d) Locking himself in his room

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

15. When does Gavin think they must wait until to dig up the body?
(a) Midnight
(b) Midday
(c) Daylight
(d) Dawn

Short Answer Questions

1. How are they going to transport the body back to the truck?

2. Why do they think that no one will lynch Lucas with Miss Habersham keeping guard?

3. What does Charles say Will is reading?

4. What does Uncle Gavin say is the unwritten code of the south?

5. Why does Charles initially think he no longer owes Lucas a debt?

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