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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did each old black man do and say?
(a) Each man slapped Mathu.
(b) Each man confessed to the murder.
(c) Each man introduced himself to Mathu.
(d) Each man fired his gun a second time.

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

3. Where did the group of old men walk to?
(a) Back to Dirty Red's house.
(b) To the cane fields.
(c) The black graveyard.
(d) To the bank of the river.

4. Why is Miss Merle in such a hurry to get to the quarters?
(a) She is worried that Miss Bea is down there causing trouble.
(b) She is worried that Janey will tell the entire town and she wants to get there before she does.
(c) She is worried that Fix is on the way and wants to get there before him.
(d) She is worried that the Major will wake up and be angry and go to the quarters drunk.

5. What was Dirty Red and his family known for?
(a) They were considered lazy.
(b) They kept the graveyard clean.
(c) They were known as good sugar cane workers.
(d) They were sharecroppers.

6. What kinds of flowers did Jack Toussaint grow?
(a) Roses.
(b) Four-o'clocks.
(c) Sunflowers.
(d) Lillies.

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

8. Where did the group walk to at the end of the chapter?
(a) To the white graveyard.
(b) To Mathu's house.
(c) To town to get the sheriff.
(d) To Clatoo's truck.

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

10. Why did Chimley not like white people calling him by his nickname?
(a) Because white people mistakenly called him Chimney.
(b) Because he wasn't very dark-skinned and he wondered why they called him by that name.
(c) Chimley did not like white people.
(d) Chimley thought they were making fun of him.

11. What did Candy ask Snookum to do?
(a) Run and get Aunt Glo.
(b) Run and get Toddy and Minnie.
(c) Run and get people to gather at Mathu's house.
(d) Run and get Lou Dimes.

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

13. When Ella tried to call the sheriff, what did Mat do?
(a) He had Chimley talk to his wife.
(b) He ripped the phone out of the wall.
(c) He left with Clatoo in the truck.
(d) He threw a fish at Ella's head.

14. What did Gil want most?
(a) To do whatever his dad, Fix wanted him to do.
(b) To be All-American with Cal.
(c) To finish school without any trouble.
(d) To kill the man who killed his brother.

15. What did Mapes do to try to get the truth from the old men?
(a) Mapes arrested all the man and took them to the town jail.
(b) Mapes and his deputy fired their guns at the crowd.
(c) Mapes arrested Candy.
(d) Mapes slapped them across the face.

Short Answer Questions

1. What war did Coot fight in?

2. Which animal did Janey say Miss Merle looked like?

3. What was Mathu always bragging about?

4. Why do Mat and Chimley fish only in one small spot?

5. What was Yank's job before tractors came to the sugar can fields?

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