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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Miss Habersham raised with?
(a) Charles
(b) Gavin Stevens
(c) Luca Beachamp
(d) Molly Beauchamp

2. What does Charles ask if he can take to Lucas?
(a) A pork pie
(b) A coca-cola
(c) Tobacco
(d) A guitar

3. Why can Charles not take the car?
(a) It has no engine
(b) His father has the keys
(c) It has no wheels
(d) He cannot drive

4. Who does Lucas order to pick the money up from the floor?
(a) The two black boys
(b) Molly
(c) Mr Edmonds
(d) Charles

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do they think that no one will lynch Lucas with Miss Habersham keeping guard?

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

3. What does Charles do when they hear the mule?

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

5. What does Aleck hear coming toward them?

(see the answer key)

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