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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. Why does the sheriff put Lucas in a cell usually reserved for white prisoners?
(a) Lucas has a white man's mind
(b) He will be safer there
(c) To tempt him into hanging himself
(d) To give him a good nights sleep

2. What does Charles ask if he can take to Lucas?
(a) Tobacco
(b) A pork pie
(c) A guitar
(d) A coca-cola

3. What does Charles notice about the roads?
(a) They have been resurfaced
(b) They are hilly
(c) They are empty of black people
(d) There is a long trail trail of blood

4. Who stops Lucas from from getting lynched?
(a) The blacksmith
(b) The shopkeepers son
(c) The bar owner
(d) Miss Laney

5. Who drives Miss Habersham to the cemetery?
(a) Charles
(b) Aleck
(c) The sheriff
(d) Gavin

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the sheriff bringing to jail?

2. What does Lucas demand Charles does?

3. Who does Lucas tell Charles he needs to speak to?

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

5. Who do they find inside the coffin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Sheriff Hampton so reluctant to react to Charles story about the mule?

4. In this chapter how does Faulkner show what he thinks is the main difference between men and women?

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

6. Why does Charles have trouble sleeping?

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

8. Why do the town think Lucas is guilty of the murder?

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

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

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