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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who ends up riding the horse home?
(a) Gavin
(b) Miss Habersham
(c) Aleck
(d) Charles

2. What does Charles's mother give him when he arrives home?
(a) Coffee
(b) A cigarette
(c) A kiss
(d) Tea

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

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

5. Where do the group find Vinson's body?
(a) Hanging from a tree
(b) In quicksand
(c) Under leaves in the forest
(d) In the ditch

6. Why does Charles think that Lucas was not lynched immediately?
(a) Because they were not sure if he was the murderer
(b) Because Mr. Gowrie is a patient man
(c) Because they could not find any rope
(d) Because the family were grieving

7. What does Mr. Gowrie pull out from his undershirt?
(a) A gun
(b) A knife
(c) His other arm
(d) A crucifix

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

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

10. Who drives Miss Habersham to the jail?
(a) Aleck
(b) Uncle Gavin
(c) Sheriff Hampton
(d) Charles

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

12. Who was wrong about the men not lynching during the day time?
(a) Sheriff Hampton
(b) Miss Habersham
(c) Charles's father
(d) Uncle Gavin

13. Who does Charles think about on his way home?
(a) Uncle Gavin
(b) His mother
(c) Miss Habersham
(d) Lucas

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles do after dinner?

2. Which brother did Vinson go into business with?

3. Who does Gavin say has to give the black man the right to be free in the south?

4. What does Gavin say lynching Lucas would now amount to?

5. What did the sheriff and Uncle Gavin do while Charles slept?

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