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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Miss Merle arrives at Mathu's house, what is the first thing that happens?
(a) Lou Dimes confesses to the murder.
(b) Candy confesses to the murder.
(c) Snookum finally gets something to eat.
(d) Mathu fires at the car.

2. When Gil and Sully arrived at the Marshall quarters, Sully thought it looked like an episode from what T.V. show?
(a) The Twilight Show.
(b) The Perry Mason Show.
(c) Bewitched.
(d) The Beverly Hillbillies.

3. Who arrived at the end of the chapter?
(a) Candy's boyfriend.
(b) Mape's backup.
(c) Fix.
(d) A lynch mob.

4. What did the men begin saying one at a time?
(a) That they were hungry.
(b) How much they each hated Beau.
(c) They each confessed to the murder of Beau.
(d) That they would never leave.

5. What time is it when Miss Merle spots the Major asleep in the swing?
(a) 6:00 a.m.
(b) Around dinnertime.
(c) Before 12:30 p.m.
(d) After 1:00 p.m.

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

7. Which animal did Janey say Miss Merle looked like?
(a) A fish.
(b) An owl.
(c) A bear.
(d) An alligator.

8. Why do Mat and Chimley fish only in one small spot?
(a) Because they play cards at the same place.
(b) Because they are hiding from the white people.
(c) The white people have bought up the land along the river and left little room to fish.
(d) Because that is the best place to catch fish.

9. When Miss Merle arrives back at the Marshall house, what does she tell Bea?
(a) That she needs a twelve-gauge shotgun.
(b) That she brought an apple pie for Jack.
(c) That Beau Boutan is dead.
(d) That she needs a drink.

10. What was Yank's job before tractors came to the sugar can fields?
(a) Yank cut sugar cane.
(b) Yank broke horses.
(c) Yank was a professional fisherman.
(d) Yank was the house servant at the Marshall house.

11. Who teased Billy when he missed the rabbit?
(a) Dirty Red.
(b) Mat.
(c) Chimley.
(d) Clatoo.

12. How did the fight start between Fix and Mathu?
(a) Mathu stared at Fix as he was drinking a Coke.
(b) Fix took a Coke without paying for it.
(c) Fix took Mathu's Coke from him.
(d) It started over a Coke bottle.

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

14. What was Beulah angry about?
(a) That all the old black men had guns.
(b) She thought that everyone was going to get killed that day.
(c) The way black women had been treated through the years.
(d) Everyone was hungry and needed food.

15. Why did the two men continue to fish after they heard about the murder?
(a) They were thinking about where to hide.
(b) They were waiting for further instructions.
(c) The were scared because of what had happened in the past.
(d) They were waiting for their wives to call them to dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Janey heard that made her believe Snookum's story?

2. Why was Clatoo dressed in a nice shirt and bow tie?

3. How many years had Miss Merle known Candy?

4. What did Candy ask Snookum to do?

5. What was Chimley sitting on while he was fishing?

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