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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What make of gun does Lucas own?
(a) A Colt .41
(b) A Heckler and Koch
(c) Adams
(d) A Remington

2. How old was Charles when he first met Lucas?
(a) Twelve
(b) Ten
(c) Fifteen
(d) Eleven

3. Who was wrong about the men not lynching during the day time?
(a) Uncle Gavin
(b) Miss Habersham
(c) Charles's father
(d) Sheriff Hampton

4. What does Charles ask Aleck Sander to do?
(a) Get the car keys from his father
(b) Talk to Gavin
(c) Find some spades
(d) Saddle up his horse

5. Why does the sheriff put Lucas in a cell usually reserved for white prisoners?
(a) Lucas has a white man's mind
(b) He will be safer there
(c) To tempt him into hanging himself
(d) To give him a good nights sleep

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles leave in the water?

2. What does Aleck hear coming toward them?

3. What does Forrest Gowrie manage?

4. How did Lucas once react to an insult from a white man?

5. What is the name of the novel's narrator?

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