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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who stops Lucas from from getting lynched?
(a) The bar owner
(b) Miss Laney
(c) The blacksmith
(d) The shopkeepers son

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

3. Why must they hide the truck when they reach the cemetery?
(a) In case the Gowries are near by
(b) The sheriff is guarding the grave
(c) The truck is stolen
(d) It is an expensive truck

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

5. What does Paralee's father say women concentrate on?
(a) Marriage
(b) Circumstances
(c) Their children
(d) Love

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

7. 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) Lucas has a white man's mind
(d) To tempt him into hanging himself

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

9. What does Charles ask if he can take to Lucas?
(a) A coca-cola
(b) A guitar
(c) Tobacco
(d) A pork pie

10. 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

11. How did Lucas once react to an insult from a white man?
(a) He cried
(b) He shot him
(c) He hit him
(d) He insulted him back

12. Why does Charles initially think he no longer owes Lucas a debt?
(a) Lucas is a black man
(b) Lucas is a criminal
(c) He bought Molly a dress
(d) Lucas does not notice him

13. How much money does Charles try to give Lucas?
(a) 1 dollar
(b) 70 cents
(c) A quarter
(d) A dime

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do they find the grave so quickly?

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

3. What does Uncle Gavin and the Sheriff want the boys to do?

4. What make of gun does Lucas own?

5. Where does Uncle Gavin tell Lucas he shot the man?

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