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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tee Jack do to calm Luke Will and his friends?
(a) Tee Jack tell the professor to shut up.
(b) Tee Jack reminds Luke Will that his store/bar is still segregated.
(c) Tee Jack gives Luke Will and his boys liquor for free.
(d) Tee Jack offers to help with the lynching.

2. Why is Gil upset with Mapes, the sheriff?
(a) Gil thinks Mapes should arrest Candy.
(b) Gil can't believe that there have been no arrests made.
(c) Gil thinks Mapes should have moved the body by now.
(d) Gil thinks Mapes is stalling to wait until Fix and the lynch mob arrive.

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

4. 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) Miss Bea hated Beau.
(c) She thinks it would be like "talking to a wall."
(d) Because Miss Bea in drunk on the porch swing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Johnny Paul, could Mapes NOT see?

2. Who was sitting in Fix's lap?

3. What did Mapes do to try to get the truth from the old men?

4. What kind of a cap was Chimley wearing?

5. Where did the group walk to at the end of the chapter?

(see the answer key)

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