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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the black prisoners normally do?
(a) Sing the blues
(b) Hit the bars with their metal plates
(c) Stand at the window and call out
(d) Spit at passers by

2. Where did Lucas have his gun when they found him standing over the dead man?
(a) In the waistband of his pants
(b) In his hand
(c) On the floor by his feet
(d) In his pocket

3. Who does Lucas order to pick the money up from the floor?
(a) Charles
(b) Molly
(c) The two black boys
(d) Mr Edmonds

4. Who rides the horse from the truck to the cemetery?
(a) Aleck
(b) Gavin
(c) Charles
(d) Miss Habersham

5. What does Lucas want Charles to do?
(a) Shoot the sheriff
(b) Dig up Gowrie's body
(c) Help him escape
(d) Kill him

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of animal does Mr. Edmunds invite Charles to hunt?

2. What was Lucas buying from the shop before the altercation?

3. Who does Charles go home to speak to?

4. What make of gun does Lucas own?

5. How do the character know the grave has been disturbed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Charles' attitude towards his black servant Aleck Sander?

2. In what way in chapter five does Uncle Gavin take control of the situation?

3. Why do you think Charles does not argue with Lucas when he pulls him from the water, even though he wants to?

4. Describe what Charles remembers about Lucas from four years ago

5. Describe how even in prison the white man is given precedent over the black man.

6. What is Uncle Gavin opinion on Lucas' request to dig up the dead body?

7. Why does Miss Habersham help Lucas out?

8. Why is Lucas not popular with white people in the town?

9. Why does Charles have trouble sleeping?

10. In what way does chapter five show the importance of women in southern American life?

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