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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was calling on God?
(a) Gram Mon.
(b) Mapes.
(c) Reverend Jameson.
(d) Lou Dimes.

3. What does Charlie do before he charges Luke Will?
(a) Shoots Leroy.
(b) Smokes a cigarette.
(c) Decides to give up.
(d) Yells at Luke Will to give up.

4. Where did Snookum hide during the shoot-out?
(a) He crawled under the house.
(b) He ran out the kitchen door and into the outhouse.
(c) He hid in the kitchen.
(d) He hid next to Gram Mon.

5. Who shot Mapes?
(a) Lou Dimes.
(b) One of Luke Will's lynch mob.
(c) The deputy.
(d) One of the old black men.

6. What does Luke Will notice about Tee Jack at the end of the chapter?
(a) That he is scared.
(b) That he wants to join the lynch mob.
(c) That he had more free liquor.
(d) That he has closed the back room.

7. The old men want to talk inside the house alone. They do not want Candy in the house with them. Candy gets very angry. What does Mapes say is Candy's motivation?
(a) She does not run the Marshall plantation, and she wants to be in charge.
(b) She is trying to protect them, but it will do no good.
(c) She blames Mathu for her upbringing.
(d) She wants to keep them all slaves.

8. Who were the three funerals for?
(a) Luke Will, Beau, and Charlie.
(b) Mapes, Leroy and Luke Will.
(c) Beau, Luke Will and Mathu.
(d) Charlie, Mapes and Luke Will.

9. Who does Charlie call Parrain?
(a) Candy.
(b) Gram Mon.
(c) Mathu.
(d) Corrine.

10. What does Mapes say to Lou?
(a) "You're in charge."
(b) "My deputy is a coward."
(c) "You're an idiot."
(d) "I'm shot."

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

12. What did Mathu ask Snookum to get from the house when the sandwiches came?
(a) Beer.
(b) Ice water.
(c) Plates and forks.
(d) More guns.

13. Who really raised Candy?
(a) Gram Mon.
(b) Lou Dimes.
(c) Mapes.
(d) Miss Merle and Mathu.

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

15. Who was sitting in Fix's lap?
(a) Beau's son.
(b) Fix's wife.
(c) Beau's wife.
(d) Fix's son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gets shot and cannot move from his position?

2. What does Snookum say that almost gives away Candy's entire plan?

3. The narrater of this chapter is on which side of the shoot-out?

4. What has Charlie done his whole life until today?

5. Who gets "winged?"

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