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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 agreed with Gil?
(a) His brother Jean.
(b) Fix.
(c) Luke Will.
(d) His brother Claude.

2. What does Jack Marshall do every day?
(a) Jack Marshall is the head of the lynch mob.
(b) Jack Marshall runs the concrete plant.
(c) Jack Marshall comes into Tee Jack's store and drinks and stares at the door to the "nigger room."
(d) Jack Marshall runs the Marshall plantation with his niece Candy.

3. What do all the old black men, and women and children do after Charlie dies?
(a) They blame Mathu for the death of Charlie.
(b) They kill Luke Will and his gang.
(c) They all touch him as a sign of honor.
(d) They cover him with a bedspread and pray.

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

5. Why were the old black men going to the back of the house one at a time?
(a) To check on Mathu.
(b) To use the outhouse.
(c) To get some food.
(d) To see if Charlie was there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shot Mapes?

2. Once the old men are in the field, what do they do?

3. Who was sitting on the bed crying?

4. What action did Gil want his father to take about the death of his brother, Beau?

5. Who was sitting in Fix's lap?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the "nigger room" a symbol of?

2. How does Charlie prove he is a man?

3. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

4. Describe the final moments of the shoot-out.

5. How many funerals were there?

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

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

8. What did Miss Merle do to show her disgust at the crowd of old black men?

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

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

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