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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who in the store (bar) thinks that the police should handle the murder?
(a) Robert.
(b) The quiet professor.
(c) Tee Jack.
(d) Jack Marshall

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

3. When Luke Will ran out of shells, what did Charlie offer?
(a) To stop the shoot-out.
(b) To surrender.
(c) To kill him.
(d) More shells.

4. How did Candy's mother and father die?
(a) Of natural causes.
(b) In a car wreck.
(c) In a plane crash.
(d) Working in the fields.

5. What did Miss Merle bring?
(a) Sandwiches in baskets.
(b) More empty shells.
(c) More guns.
(d) Four more men.

6. Who did Luke Will say was in charge?
(a) Charlie.
(b) Leroy.
(c) Lou.
(d) Mathu.

7. What was Leroy's reaction?
(a) He got mad and starting firing his gun as fast as he could.
(b) He laughed.
(c) He was sniveling.
(d) He had trouble aiming his gun.

8. Who was sitting on the bed crying?
(a) Fix.
(b) Beau's wife.
(c) Jean.
(d) Beau's son.

9. What did Lou tell Mapes when he crawled over to him?
(a) "We have to move you."
(b) "Your deputy resigned."
(c) "You're in the way."
(d) "You're hit."

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

11. Where is Snookum when Lou notices him?
(a) He has crawled through and is now under the front porch.
(b) He is in Lou's car.
(c) He is on the front porch next to Mapes.
(d) He is in the outhouse.

12. Who welcomed Gil at the door of his father's house?
(a) Russell.
(b) Sully.
(c) Fix.
(d) Jean.

13. What did Dirty Red keep asking Charlie?
(a) If he really killed Beau.
(b) If he believed in God.
(c) What he'd seen back in the swamps.
(d) If he was going to kill Luke Will and Fix.

14. During the trial, what was the racial makeup of the observing crowd?
(a) All black.
(b) All white as blacks were not allowed in the courtroom.
(c) All white on the main floor and a few blacks in the balcony.
(d) About half black and half white.

15. What phrase does Charlie keep saying over and over again?
(a) I need a better house.
(b) I'm a man.
(c) I need a tractor to work in the fields.
(d) I killed Beau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shot Mapes?

2. What was different about the way Yank hollered?

3. Who were the three funerals for?

4. What does Mapes say to Lou?

5. What did Fix do when Gil did not agree with him?

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