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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 does Luke Will's gang do at the end of the chapter?

2. Where did Snookum hide during the shoot-out?

3. Why did Mathu look down on all the other old black men?

4. What did Miss Merle bring?

5. Who talks Candy into ending the events of the day?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was it important for Charlie to come forward and confess to the murder of Beau?

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

4. What was Tee Jack afraid of?

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

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

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

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

9. How does Charlie prove he is a man?

10. What does Charlie do when the shoot-out begins?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Relationships between white and black in this town in the Deep South. Explain the relationships between the black and white people in this town. Why didn't they change after slavery and after civil rights? Why is this town so far behind the times?

Essay Topic 2

Why were the old black men brave now but hadn't been before?

Essay Topic 3

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

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