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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who shows up from the back of the house at the end of the chapter?
(a) Charlie Biggs.
(b) Lou Dimes.
(c) Luke Will.
(d) Fix.

2. What was Lou doing in the final moments of the shoot-out?
(a) He was shooting at the tractor.
(b) He was organizing the men to stand and hoop and shoot.
(c) He was waving his arms trying to get people to stop shooting.
(d) He was hiding under the house with Snookum.

3. How far did Charlie go before he was hit?
(a) Across the yard.
(b) To the ditch.
(c) To the tractor.
(d) Three or Four steps.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Leroy's reaction?

2. Who gets "winged?"

3. Who did Luke Will say was in charge?

4. What was different about the way Yank hollered?

5. Who really raised Candy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How many days did the trial last?

2. How was Gil welcomed by the people gathered at his father's house?

3. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

4. Who came in from the kitchen and what was he doing there?

5. Who did Mapes put in charge after he was wounded?

6. Why did Fix need all his sons to agree on a course of action?

7. What is Leroy's reaction to getting shot?

8. What did Mapes mean when he told Luke Will that Charlie was now in charge?

9. Why did Mapes call Charlie "Mr. Biggs?"

10. How were the old men getting a bathroom break?

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