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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paralee's father say men concentrate too much on?
(a) Love
(b) Facts
(c) Money
(d) Intuition

2. Who does Charles find his uncle speaking to?
(a) The sheriff
(b) His father
(c) His mother
(d) Miss Habersham

3. When does Charles think the Gowries will go after Lucas?
(a) In the morning
(b) After midnight
(c) On the sheriff's break
(d) On friday night

4. Why do they think that no one will lynch Lucas with Miss Habersham keeping guard?
(a) Because she is a woman
(b) Because she knows all their mothers
(c) Because she is enaged to the senator
(d) Because she is the best shot in the state

5. What does Lucas get arrested for?
(a) Tax fraud
(b) Shooting a local man
(c) Devil worship
(d) Bank robbery

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the black prisoners afraid to make a noise?

2. Who does Lucas remind Charles of?

3. What does Charles do during breakfast?

4. Who does the sheriff phone to organize an exhumation order?

5. Who does Lucas tell Charles he needs to speak to?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does chapter five express the segregation between black and white people?

2. Describe how even in prison the white man is given precedent over the black man.

3. What is Charles' attitude towards his black servant Aleck Sander?

4. Why does Charles have trouble sleeping?

5. Describe Lucas's appearance.

6. In what way does chapter five show the importance of women in southern American life?

7. Why does Miss Habersham help Lucas out?

8. In what way does Charles become obsessed by the incident?

9. Describe the ride to the cemetery.

10. What is significant about the man on the mule in chapter four?

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