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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Mat returned home with his fish?

2. How did the fight start between Fix and Mathu?

3. Why did the two men continue to fish after they heard about the murder?

4. When Miss Merle arrives at Mathu's house, what is the first thing that happens?

5. What did Candy ask Snookum to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Clatoo stop the truck before he got to Mathu's?

2. Why did all the men shoot their guns once?

3. What had happened on the river that narrowed the fishing area for Chimley and Mat?

4. Why was Gil torn between love for his family and sadness over their past actions?

5. Why did Mat and Chimley wait before they took action?

6. Why was it important for the author to show violence against women in the black community?

7. Why did Mathu look down on some of the men who came to help him?

8. How did Gable describe the death of his sixteen-year-old son?

9. What was the significance of the argument between Mat and his wife?

10. What was Johnny Paul talking about when he talked to Mapes about what he couldn't see?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How will this town be different in the future? Will the events of this day make an impact and really change things, or will everything go back to the way it always was?

Essay Topic 2

How was Gil's life different from his family? How was he torn between the two worlds?

Essay Topic 3

What did the Cajuns come to symbolize to the black people on the river?

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