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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 did Crawford sell his lumber to?
(a) Jake Montgomerie
(b) Sudley Workitt
(c) David Bean
(d) Charles' father

2. How much did Crawford bet Lucas that his gun would not shoot?
(a) A dollar
(b) A quarter
(c) Two dollars
(d) Half a dollar

3. What does the sheriff find in the ditch?
(a) Mule hair
(b) A gun
(c) A cowboy hat
(d) A mound

4. Who killed Vinson?
(a) Montgomerie
(b) Gavin
(c) Crawford
(d) Mr. Gowrie

5. What part of the body was Vinson shot?
(a) In the back
(b) In the hand
(c) In the head
(d) In the thigh

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Charles think his father is so angry?

3. What does Gavin say lynching Lucas would now amount to?

4. What does Miss Habersham need while she is standing guard at the jail?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Charles' father so angry?

2. Why is Charles so interested in why the black worker is plowing the field?

3. Why does Gavin think Vinson Gowrie is buried in quicksand?

4. How is the sheriff proven wrong in chapter six?

5. Why did the Gowrie's not lynch Lucas behind the store?

6. What is Uncle Gavin's take on the civil rights struggle in the South?

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

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

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

10. Why did Crawford kill Jake?

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