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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the sheriff ask Sue?
(a) Where Johnny Boy is
(b) How much money she has
(c) Names of Communists
(d) How she cooks her greens nicely

2. Who does Johnny Boy go out to warn?
(a) Reva
(b) His comrades
(c) The sheriff
(d) His brother

3. Where has the sheriff caught Johnny Boy?
(a) In Reva's house
(b) On Highway 34
(c) In the hills
(d) By Foley's woods

4. What does Taylor accuse Smith of doing?
(a) Abusing his position
(b) Taking over the church
(c) Devil worship
(d) Calling him boy

5. Why does Taylor not enter the white church?
(a) He is not allowed in
(b) He knows he will be killed
(c) He thinks they worship the devil
(d) He does not trust the preacher

6. Where is the mayor waiting for Taylor?
(a) The church parlor
(b) The study
(c) The kitchen
(d) The bible room

7. Who is at Sue's door?
(a) Reva
(b) Sugs
(c) Booker
(d) The sheriff

8. What does Smith accuse Smith of being?
(a) Indecisive
(b) No fun
(c) Cowardly
(d) Scared

9. What does Johnny Boy say he does not believe in?
(a) Communism
(b) People
(c) Christianity
(d) Black and white

10. What does Silas do with the graphophone?
(a) Breaks it
(b) Plays it
(c) Spits on it
(d) Kisses it

11. Who does Taylor say wants to take over the church?
(a) Deacon Smith
(b) Brother Jones
(c) The sheriff
(d) The major

12. What information does the sheriff want from Johnny Boy?
(a) Who killed a white man
(b) Names of Communists
(c) If he has a gun
(d) If he robbed the bank

13. What does Sarah say she worries about?
(a) If dinner is good enough
(b) Johnny's health
(c) The number of whites Johnny hires
(d) Reva's health

14. What does Sue plan to hide inside the sheet?
(a) A knife
(b) A gun
(c) A bible
(d) A harpoon

15. Where do Taylor and his people march to?
(a) The hills
(b) The hospital
(c) The mountains
(d) The town hall

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose feet does Sue hear tramping through the yard?

2. What does the sheriff say Sue will need to collect her son?

3. Who does Sarah think her husband will kill?

4. What is the only thing Sue can see in the distance?

5. What does Taylor tell his wife to tell the mayor?

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