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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 did Candy do when she waved goodbye to the old men?

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

3. What does Jack Marshall do every day?

4. Who was sitting in Fix's lap?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

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

3. Why is it important that this chapter is narrated by a child?

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

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

6. How does Charlie prove he is a man?

7. How many funerals were there?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Mapes change from the beginning of the story to the end of the story?

Essay Topic 2

How did a different person narrating each chapter change the story? What would have been different if Lou Dimes had narrated all the chapters? Or Chimley. Or Candy. Or Clatoo?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of the black graveyards. What were they symbolizing?

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