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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 does Charles do during breakfast?
(a) Cries
(b) Falls asleep
(c) Prays
(d) Vomits

2. Where does Uncle Gavin tell Lucas he shot the man?
(a) In the groin
(b) In the back
(c) In the kidney
(d) Between the eyes

3. Where does the Lucas's wife sit?
(a) On the rug by the fire
(b) On a stool next to the stove
(c) In a rocking chair by the fire
(d) On the table

4. Where does Charles end up throwing the coins?
(a) At Lucas
(b) Down a well
(c) In the creek
(d) Into the sea

5. What does Lucas send to Charles in return for Charles sending his wife a dress?
(a) A train set
(b) Homemade corndogs
(c) A revolver
(d) Homemade sorghum molasses

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Will Legate armed with?

2. What does Aleck offer Charles to help him out of the water?

3. When does Charles think the Gowries will go after Lucas?

4. What is the name of the man Lucas has been accused of killing?

5. How are they going to transport the body back to the truck?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Miss Habersham help Lucas out?

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

4. Why does Charles become so involved in the murder case?

5. Why does Lucas want Charles to dig up Gowrie's body?

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

7. Do you think it was unusual for a black man to invite a white boy back to his cabin?

8. Why do you think Lucas does not discourage Gavin from giving him a version of his own story?

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

10. What is significant about the man on the mule in chapter four?

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