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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 the crowd did when Charles suggests that they ran?
(a) They walked away
(b) They forgot
(c) They gave up
(d) They went for a drink

2. What does Mr. Gowrie do with his son's dead body?
(a) Burns it
(b) Takes it home
(c) Buries it in the forest
(d) Throws it in to a lake

3. Who does Gavin say has to give the black man the right to be free in the south?
(a) Southern gentlemen
(b) The court of law
(c) The governor
(d) The President

4. Who did Crawford sell his lumber to?
(a) Jake Montgomerie
(b) Sudley Workitt
(c) Charles' father
(d) David Bean

5. Which animals footprints does the sheriff discover?
(a) A badger's
(b) A deer's
(c) A dog's
(d) A mule's

6. What did Lucas alway wear when he went into town?
(a) His pocket watch
(b) His gold cufflinks
(c) His pistol
(d) His grandfather's jacket

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

8. What still might happen to Lucas if he is found guilty?
(a) He could be sentenced for life
(b) He could hang
(c) He could have his hands chopped off
(d) He could be put on the electric chair

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

10. Who is waiting in Gavin's office?
(a) Miss Habersham
(b) Charles
(c) Crawford Gowrie
(d) Mr. Gowrie

11. What does Gavin tell Charles never to stop doing?
(a) Going to school
(b) Learning about life
(c) Loving his family
(d) Fighting for his beliefs

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

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

14. What does Charles see a black man doing in a field?
(a) Plowing
(b) Running
(c) Shooting a white man
(d) Smoking

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drives Miss Habersham to the jail?

2. Who does the sheriff say sold the gun to Crawford Gowrie?

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

4. What does Lucas want while he sits in the car?

5. Where does Uncle Gavin think Vinson's body has been buried?

(see the answer keys)

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