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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Yank do in his younger days?
(a) He broke horses and mules.
(b) He worked in the sugar cane fields.
(c) He was a servant.
(d) He worked in a rodeo.

2. Who shows up from the back of the house at the end of the chapter?
(a) Lou Dimes.
(b) Luke Will.
(c) Charlie Biggs.
(d) Fix.

3. What did Clatoo do with the shoe box?
(a) He hid the shoe box in the field out back.
(b) He hid the shoe box behind the second block under the house.
(c) He hid the shoe box in the kitchen.
(d) He hid the shoe box in the outhouse.

4. Who narrates this chapter?
(a) Beulah.
(b) Clatoo.
(c) Candy.
(d) Lou Dimes.

5. What was next to Beau's body?
(a) A tractor that was still running.
(b) Sugar cane.
(c) Reverend Jameson
(d) Mathu's shotgun.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years had Miss Merle known Candy?

2. Why does Janey worry when Miss Bea is gathering pecans?

3. Where does Janey tell Miss Merle that Beau was killed?

4. Why did Janey keep looking down toward the highway?

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

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