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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Merle tell Janey to do?
(a) Pray.
(b) Call Lou Dimes again.
(c) Go to Marshall.
(d) Wake the Major.

2. What did Chimley tell his wife when he left the house?
(a) To have the fish ready to eat when he returned.
(b) To gather all the women and meet him at Mathu's
(c) The find more men and guns and send them along.
(d) To quit bugging him.

3. According to Chimley's story, who got in a fistfight with Fix?
(a) The sheriff.
(b) Candy.
(c) Mathu.
(d) Mat.

4. Who helped raise Candy?
(a) Lou.
(b) Janey.
(c) Miss Merle.
(d) Lucy.

5. How many years had Miss Merle known Candy?
(a) Only a few months.
(b) All Candy's life.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 5 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Jacob feel bad about his sister's death?

2. Who tells Mat and Chimley that there has been a murder?

3. Where did the group of old men walk to?

4. Why was Lou not at work?

5. Where did Chimley keep his number five shells?

(see the answer key)

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