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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. Where does Gavin take Charles?
(a) To the saloon
(b) To school
(c) To the cemetery
(d) To the sheriff's house

2. What does Lucas lay on the bare cots?
(a) His jacket
(b) Tarpaulin
(c) Books
(d) Newspaper

3. Why do they think that no one will lynch Lucas with Miss Habersham keeping guard?
(a) Because she is a woman
(b) Because she is the best shot in the state
(c) Because she is enaged to the senator
(d) Because she knows all their mothers

4. Who do they find inside the coffin?
(a) Lucas
(b) Vinson Gowrie
(c) Montgomery
(d) The sheriff

5. How old was Charles when he first met Lucas?
(a) Ten
(b) Eleven
(c) Twelve
(d) Fifteen

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Will Legate armed with?

2. When is Charles afraid the the town folk will lynch Lucas?

3. Who does the sheriff phone to organize an exhumation order?

4. What does Charles consider doing so he does not have to see Lucas lynched?

5. Who drives Miss Habersham to the cemetery?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Charles have trouble sleeping?

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

3. In what way does chapter five express the segregation between black and white people?

4. Describe the ride to the cemetery.

5. How does chapter five express Charles's need to come of age as a man?

6. In what way does Charles think Lucas is different?

7. Describe Lucas's appearance.

8. Why does Miss Habersham help Lucas out?

9. In what way does Charles show he is the epiphany of a southern gentleman in chapter four?

10. How does Charles still know that he still owes Lucas a debt?

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