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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 Charles eat his breakfast?
(a) In the lounge
(b) In the dining room
(c) In the kitchen
(d) In the garden

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

3. Why do they find the grave so quickly?
(a) It was the first one dug that winter
(b) It is biggest in the graveyard
(c) It is full of fresh flowers
(d) It is the only one with a headstone

4. What does Lucas demand Charles does?
(a) Talk to his wife
(b) Warm himself by the fire
(c) Cook him dinner
(d) Tell a joke

5. What does Lucas get arrested for?
(a) Bank robbery
(b) Tax fraud
(c) Devil worship
(d) Shooting a local man

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the black prisoners normally do?

2. When does Will Legate join the group at the sheriff's house?

3. Where does Charles end up throwing the coins?

4. What does Uncle Gavin and the Sheriff want the boys to do?

5. Who does Lucas remind Charles of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Miss Habersham help Lucas out?

2. Describe the painting in Lucas's cabin.

3. In what way does Charles become obsessed by the incident?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Charles have trouble sleeping?

(see the answer keys)

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