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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Janey tell Miss Bea about the murder?
(a) Miss Bea is still asleep and Janey doesn't want to wake her.
(b) She thinks it would be like "talking to a wall."
(c) Because Miss Bea in drunk on the porch swing.
(d) Miss Bea hated Beau.

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

3. Why does Candy want more men and more twelve-gauge shotguns?
(a) So Mathu will have more firepower.
(b) So Candy will be protected.
(c) So that is will be unclear who killed Beau.
(d) So Candy can pile them in the trunk of her LTD.

4. Where does Janey tell Miss Merle that Beau was killed?
(a) At the Marshall main house.
(b) In the sugar cane field.
(c) In Baton Rouge.
(d) In the quarters.

5. What does Snookum see at Mathu's house?
(a) Reverend Jameson standing over a body.
(b) Corrine in her kitchen eating.
(c) Rufe hoeing in his garden.
(d) A dead body.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Miss Merle arrives back at the Marshall house, what does she tell Bea?

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

3. Janey calls two people on the phone. Who are they?

4. Why is Miss Merle in such a hurry to get to the quarters?

5. Who is Snookum's grandmother?

(see the answer key)

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