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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a topic in the poem that McCaslin reads?
(a) Pity.
(b) Courage.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Justice.

2. Who is sent to get a doctor?
(a) Ash.
(b) Boon.
(c) Tennie's Jim.
(d) Ike.

3. Which of the following is not part of the ledger that Ike reads?
(a) Education records.
(b) Land details.
(c) Family lineage.
(d) Slaves' lineage.

4. Which organization does Ike mention when talking about the South after the Civil War?
(a) The Ku Klux Klan.
(b) The Reconstructionists.
(c) The preachers.
(d) The politicians.

5. Which of the following does Ike not notice about Lion?
(a) Empty eyes.
(b) Endurance.
(c) Playfulness.
(d) Courage.

6. What does Mr. Semmes give Boon as a bonus with the whiskey order?
(a) A pistol.
(b) A plug of tobacco.
(c) An extra bottle of whiskey.
(d) A keg of beer.

7. How do the men find Sam when they return to camp?
(a) Shaking with fever.
(b) Cooking breakfast.
(c) Dead and wrapped in a bundle.
(d) Coughing with pneumonia.

8. What does Boon want to buy with a dollar?
(a) A shirt.
(b) A drink.
(c) A bath.
(d) A knife.

9. Ike thinks God wants man to care for the earth and __________________.
(a) Protect it.
(b) Harvest it.
(c) Share it.
(d) Not own it.

10. What is the name of the sawmill with a commissary?
(a) Merritt.
(b) Hokes.
(c) Wichita.
(d) Melton.

11. How much money does Ike put into a bank account for Fornsiba?
(a) $500.
(b) $100.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $1,000.

12. Ike's father and uncle were __________.
(a) Nothing alike.
(b) Enemies.
(c) Best of friends.
(d) Twins.

13. Which person from the past do Ike and McCaslin talk about?
(a) Sam Fathers.
(b) Major deSpain.
(c) Ash.
(d) General Compson.

14. Sam Fathers learned both pride and ______________ in his life.
(a) Humility.
(b) Servility.
(c) Honor.
(d) Greed.

15. What month is it when Chapter 3 begins?
(a) February.
(b) October.
(c) June.
(d) December.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which relative of Ike's was caught having an affair with a black cook?

2. Who is the man who sells the whiskey to Boon and Ike?

3. How many old bullets do the men find in Old Ben?

4. The doctor thinks that Sam __________________.

5. McCaslin thinks that the men who wrote the Bible were sometimes ____________.

(see the answer keys)

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