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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How was Gable's son put to death?
(a) He died during a beating.
(b) The electric chair.
(c) He was lynched.
(d) He was shot.

3. Where does Janey say that Miss Bea and Major are?
(a) Eating in the kitchen.
(b) In the house trying to sleep.
(c) Drinking on the porch.
(d) Out back in the field collecting pecans.

4. What action did Gil want his father to take about the death of his brother, Beau?
(a) Gil wanted Sully to talk to Mathu.
(b) Gil wanted his father, Fix, to talk to Mathu.
(c) Gil wanted to form a lynch mob and pick up Mathu.
(d) Gil wanted to let the police arrest the suspect.

5. What are the tractor's getting closer and closer to?
(a) Mathu's house.
(b) Candy's house.
(c) The houses at the quarters.
(d) The black graveyard.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Tessie?

3. What is the garry?

4. How did Candy's mother and father die?

5. Who picks up Candy and puts her in his car?

(see the answer key)

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