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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Miss Habersham need while she is standing guard at the jail?
(a) Her shawl
(b) Her baby
(c) Her book
(d) Her sewing

3. Where does Gavin say the black man is from?
(a) Barbados
(b) Africa
(c) The North
(d) England

4. Where does Crawford Gowrie live?
(a) Beat Four
(b) Benjamin County
(c) Raleigh
(d) Franklin County

5. What does Charles make his friends while they wait?
(a) Sandwiches
(b) Lemonade
(c) Popcorn
(d) A pot of coffee

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

7. Who does not want Charles's mother to go to the jail?
(a) Uncle Gavin
(b) Charles's father
(c) The Sheriff
(d) Charles

8. Who killed Vinson?
(a) Gavin
(b) Mr. Gowrie
(c) Crawford
(d) Montgomerie

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

10. What kind of dogs are with the three men that appear from behind the church?
(a) Pitbull terries
(b) Mongrels
(c) Hound dogs
(d) Retreivers

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drives Miss Habersham to the jail?

2. What does Charles see a black man doing in a field?

3. Why does Charles refuse to go with Gavin?

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

5. Who does Charles think about on his way home?

(see the answer keys)

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