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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. When does Gavin think they must wait until to dig up the body?
(a) Daylight
(b) Midnight
(c) Dawn
(d) Midday
2. What kind of hat does Lucas wear?
(a) A Davy Crotchett hat
(b) A top hat
(c) A cowboy hat
(d) A beaver hat
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 knows all their mothers
(c) Because she is the best shot in the state
(d) Because she is enaged to the senator
4. Who is the sheriff bringing to jail?
(a) Charles Mallison
(b) Lucas Beachamp
(c) Gavin Stevens
(d) Carothers Edmunds
5. Who does Charles meet for the first time when he climbs out of the water?
(a) His father
(b) Lucas Beachamp
(c) Gavin Stevens
(d) Aleck Sander
Short Answer Questions
1. Why must they hide the truck when they reach the cemetery?
2. What kind of job did Montgomery have?
3. Why does Lucas accept Gavin's story?
4. Where does Charles buy the tobacco?
5. Why does the sheriff think the towns people will not lynch during the day?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how even in prison the white man is given precedent over the black man.
2. In what way does chapter five express the segregation between black and white people?
3. Do you think Will Legate is a good choice to guard Lucas at such a dangerous time?
4. What is the unwritten code of the south when a black man commits a crime against a white man?
5. Describe the ride to the cemetery.
6. Why do you think Lucas does not discourage Gavin from giving him a version of his own story?
7. What is Charles' attitude towards his black servant Aleck Sander?
8. What is significant about the man on the mule in chapter four?
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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