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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the sheriff think Jack Montgomerie tried to do before he died?
(a) Score drugs
(b) Dig up Vinson
(c) Call the police
(d) Kill his killer

2. Where did Vinson arrange to meet Lucas?
(a) At the local bar
(b) In the forest
(c) At Lucas' cabin
(d) At the local store

3. What people does Charles notice are not on the streets?
(a) White people
(b) Children
(c) Black people
(d) Women

4. Why does Charles think his father is so angry?
(a) He is tired
(b) He is mean, bitter and racist
(c) He has stomach cramps
(d) He has no control over the situation

5. Where does Uncle Gavin think Vinson's body has been buried?
(a) In another state
(b) In New Mexico
(c) In quick sand
(d) In a lake

6. Why is Charles so worried about finding the body?
(a) He thinks the murderer is watching them
(b) He thinks the body will come alive
(c) He thinks it will have germs
(d) He is worried about what his mother will say

7. Why does the sheriff think that Lucas did not kill Vinson?
(a) Vinson shot himself
(b) The wound could not of been created by Lucas's gun
(c) The killer was shooting from further away
(d) Lucas would never shoot a man in the back

8. Which one of the Gowrie clan is a draft dodger?
(a) Vinson
(b) Forrest
(c) Bryan
(d) Crawford

9. Who does Gavin pick up from town?
(a) Charles's mother
(b) Lucas
(c) Miss Habersham
(d) Crawford Gowrie

10. Who plans to join Miss Habersham at the local jail?
(a) Aleck
(b) Gavin
(c) Charles's father
(d) Charles's mother

11. What does Lucas want while he sits in the car?
(a) His pistol
(b) A woman
(c) A magazine
(d) A knife

12. Who digs at the mound?
(a) The hound dog
(b) Charles
(c) The twins
(d) The sheriff

13. What age had Charles's mother sworn she would allow her son coffee?
(a) 24
(b) 18
(c) 21
(d) 16

14. Where does Charles ride to with Gavin?
(a) Back to his house
(b) To the undertakers
(c) To the jail
(d) To school

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles's mother give him when he arrives home?

2. How much did Crawford bet Lucas that his gun would not shoot?

3. What does Miss Habersham need while she is standing guard at the jail?

4. What is different about one of the men who appears from behind the church?

5. Why does Charles think the men have gathered around the jail?

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