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

2. What group was there to defend Luke Will's friends?
(a) The Klans.
(b) Candy's uncle.
(c) NAACP.
(d) Lou Dimes.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was sitting in Fix's lap?

2. Who picks up Candy and puts her in his car?

3. What does Mapes say to Lou?

4. What did Lou tell Mapes when he crawled over to him?

5. What is the "nigger room" in Tee Jack's store?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How many funerals were there?

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

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

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

6. How does Charlie prove he is a man?

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

8. When the shoot-out began, how did the old black men get organized and decide what to do?

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

10. How did Mapes get the group of old men to decide to end the evening?

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