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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Forrest Gowrie manage?
(a) A farm
(b) A delta cotton plantation
(c) An orpanage
(d) A Ford car factory

2. What does the sheriff find in the ditch?
(a) A mound
(b) A gun
(c) Mule hair
(d) A cowboy hat

3. Who digs the grave?
(a) Aleck
(b) The twins
(c) Charles
(d) The sheriff

4. What do the twins find in the pine coffin?
(a) A sack of potatoes
(b) Nothing
(c) Vinson
(d) Montgomerie

5. What does Gavin say happens in early May?
(a) Lynching
(b) Spring
(c) The cotton planting season
(d) The folk and country festival

6. What do the crowd do when they see Vinson's dead body?
(a) Go to church
(b) Go home
(c) Rip down the jail
(d) Pray

7. What is the first thing Charles does when he arrives home?
(a) He runs up to his room
(b) He goes to the bathroom
(c) He makes a cup of coffee
(d) He goes to the haybarn

8. What is different about one of the men who appears from behind the church?
(a) He has yellow skin
(b) He has no mouth
(c) He is blind
(d) He has one arm

9. What was the name of Vinson's uncle?
(a) Jackie Franklin
(b) Sudley Workitt
(c) Frank Spencer
(d) Davis Gowrie

10. What moment of the story does Charles think back to?
(a) A conversation with Aleck
(b) The trip to the cemetery
(c) His first meeting with Lucas
(d) His breakfast that morning

11. How many faces does Charles dream that the crowd has?
(a) FIve
(b) Hundreds
(c) Three
(d) One

12. What does Uncle Gavin say the crowd did when Charles suggests that they ran?
(a) They went for a drink
(b) They walked away
(c) They gave up
(d) They forgot

13. Who follow the footprints on horseback?
(a) Aleck Sander
(b) The Gowrie twins
(c) Uncle Gavin
(d) Charles

14. What part of the body was Vinson shot?
(a) In the back
(b) In the thigh
(c) In the hand
(d) In the head

15. Where do the footprints end?
(a) At a house
(b) At a tree
(c) At a ditch
(d) At a river

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the youngest of the Gowrie boys?

2. What kind of dogs are with the three men that appear from behind the church?

3. Where does Gavin suggest the bodies could be buried?

4. What does Charles make his friends while they wait?

5. What does Charles do after dinner?

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