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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the constable chain Lucas to?
(a) A railing
(b) A car handle
(c) A bed post
(d) The murder victim

3. What do the black prisoners normally do?
(a) Stand at the window and call out
(b) Spit at passers by
(c) Sing the blues
(d) Hit the bars with their metal plates

4. Why can Charles not take the car?
(a) His father has the keys
(b) It has no engine
(c) He cannot drive
(d) It has no wheels

5. Who drives Miss Habersham to the cemetery?
(a) Charles
(b) Gavin
(c) Aleck
(d) The sheriff

6. Why do they think that no one will lynch Lucas with Miss Habersham keeping guard?
(a) Because she is a woman
(b) Because she is the best shot in the state
(c) Because she is enaged to the senator
(d) Because she knows all their mothers

7. Who does Charles go home to speak to?
(a) Uncle Gavin
(b) His mother
(c) Aleck
(d) His father

8. What does Charles do when they hear the mule?
(a) Drives off the road
(b) Asks who it is
(c) Greets the mule and its rider cordially
(d) Shoots at the mule blindly

9. 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) Give himself up for lynching
(d) Smile and play music

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

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

12. Why does Lucas accept Gavin's story?
(a) Because he knows he will die anyway
(b) Because he knows Gavin thinks he is guilty
(c) Because he no longer wants to hire him
(d) Because he is too tired to contradict him

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

14. What make of gun does Lucas own?
(a) A Remington
(b) A Colt .41
(c) Adams
(d) A Heckler and Koch

15. On what day does Charles meet Lucas for the second time?
(a) Friday
(b) Monday
(c) Saturday
(d) Wednesday

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Aleck Sander eat his breakfast?

2. What is Will Legate armed with?

3. How would Charles leave town?

4. What is the name of the man Lucas has been accused of killing?

5. Who does Lucas remind Charles of?

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