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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mapes know Mathu?
(a) Mathu had worked for Mapes.
(b) They had hunted and fished together.
(c) They grew up together.
(d) They had been in a fistfight with each other.

2. Who gets shot and cannot move from his position?
(a) Lou Dimes.
(b) Candy.
(c) Mapes.
(d) Luke Will.

3. Why did Cherry not like the sight of an empty cane field?
(a) It made him feel lonely.
(b) It reminded him of how the tractors plowed the fields and hurt the land.
(c) He was sad that there was no work left for the year.
(d) He preferred the site of a cane field about to be plowed.

4. What did Candy say to Miss Merle when she saw her?
(a) "Did you bring guns?"
(b) "I shot Beau."
(c) "Where is Lou?"
(d) "I loved the pie."

5. What did Mat tell his wife about the shotguns?
(a) He saw some rabbits he wanted to shoot.
(b) There was trouble at Mathu's house.
(c) He said they were going hunting.
(d) There was a lynch mob on the way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was so important about the "Salt and Pepper" football duo?

2. Why did Miss Merle bring a pie?

3. What does Jack Marshall do every day?

4. Why did Mathu look down on all the other old black men?

5. What did each old black man do and say?

(see the answer key)

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