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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose body do they find?
(a) Lucas's
(b) Vinson Gowrie's
(c) Charles's father's
(d) Jack Montgomerie's

2. How many boys in the Gowrie family?
(a) Twelve
(b) Ten
(c) Six
(d) Eight

3. How much did Crawford bet Lucas that his gun would not shoot?
(a) Two dollars
(b) A quarter
(c) Half a dollar
(d) A dollar

4. Who digs at the mound?
(a) The twins
(b) The sheriff
(c) The hound dog
(d) Charles

5. Who does Gavin say has to give the black man the right to be free in the south?
(a) Southern gentlemen
(b) The President
(c) The court of law
(d) The governor

6. Who does Mr. Gowrie not want to dig up his son's grave?
(a) The sheriff
(b) Gavin
(c) The black prisoners
(d) Charles

7. Why is Charles so worried about finding the body?
(a) He thinks the murderer is watching them
(b) He is worried about what his mother will say
(c) He thinks it will have germs
(d) He thinks the body will come alive

8. What does Gavin say lynching Lucas would now amount to?
(a) Murder
(b) Justice
(c) Manslaughter
(d) Grevious Bodily Harm

9. What does Mr. Gowrie do with his son's dead body?
(a) Burns it
(b) Takes it home
(c) Buries it in the forest
(d) Throws it in to a lake

10. What is different about one of the men who appears from behind the church?
(a) He has one arm
(b) He is blind
(c) He has yellow skin
(d) He has no mouth

11. Who plans to join Miss Habersham at the local jail?
(a) Gavin
(b) Aleck
(c) Charles's mother
(d) Charles's father

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

13. What do the crowd do when they see Vinson's dead body?
(a) Go home
(b) Go to church
(c) Pray
(d) Rip down the jail

14. Where did Vinson arrange to meet Lucas?
(a) At the local store
(b) At the local bar
(c) At Lucas' cabin
(d) In the forest

15. Who killed Vinson?
(a) Gavin
(b) Crawford
(c) Montgomerie
(d) Mr. Gowrie

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is waiting in Gavin's office?

2. Why does Charles refuse to go with Gavin?

3. What does Mr. Gowrie pull out from his undershirt?

4. Who does the sheriff say sold the gun to Crawford Gowrie?

5. Who is the oldest of the Gowrie clan?

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