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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. Who does not want Charles's mother to go to the jail?
(a) Charles's father
(b) The Sheriff
(c) Charles
(d) Uncle Gavin

2. What is the first thing Charles does when he arrives home?
(a) He goes to the haybarn
(b) He runs up to his room
(c) He makes a cup of coffee
(d) He goes to the bathroom

3. What would of the towns people have thought the lynching of Lucas would of been before Mr. Gowries showed them Montgomeries body?
(a) Just life
(b) Funny
(c) Justice
(d) Murder

4. What is different about one of the men who appears from behind the church?
(a) He has one arm
(b) He has no mouth
(c) He is blind
(d) He has yellow skin

5. What does Lucas want while he sits in the car?
(a) His pistol
(b) A woman
(c) A magazine
(d) A knife

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the footprints end?

2. Who sits in the car with Sheriff Hampton?

3. What age had Charles's mother sworn she would allow her son coffee?

4. Why is Charles so worried about finding the body?

5. What does Charles make his friends while they wait?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Crawford and Vinson's lumber business.

2. Who does the sheriff think the man is who passed Charles on the road to the cemetery?

3. How do Gavin and the Sheriff plan to catch Crawford?

4. Describe the Gowrie clan

5. What is different between the blacks in the north and the black in the south?

6. In what way are the Gowrie's only a small step above black people?

7. Why do you think Charles is so enraged by the behavior of the crowd?

8. In what way does Faulkner portray Miss Habersham as a strong woman?

9. Why does the Sheriff think that Lucas could not of killed Vinson?

10. Why have southern black men not earned freedom in the south?

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