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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. Who sits in the car with Sheriff Hampton?
(a) Charles
(b) Two black prisoners
(c) Gavin
(d) Aleck Sander

2. Where do the footprints end?
(a) At a house
(b) At a river
(c) At a ditch
(d) At a tree

3. 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

4. What does Forrest Gowrie manage?
(a) An orpanage
(b) A Ford car factory
(c) A farm
(d) A delta cotton plantation

5. What does Gavin tell Charles never to stop doing?
(a) Fighting for his beliefs
(b) Going to school
(c) Learning about life
(d) Loving his family

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the sheriff and Uncle Gavin do while Charles slept?

2. Why did the Gowries not lynch Lucas?

3. Who plans to join Miss Habersham at the local jail?

4. Who was wrong about the men not lynching during the day time?

5. What did Lucas alway wear when he went into town?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Charles hold such respect for Miss Habersham?

2. How do Gavin and the Sheriff plan to catch Crawford?

3. Why have southern black men not earned freedom in the south?

4. Why do you think Charles is so enraged by the behavior of the crowd?

5. Why do you think Charles is so struck by Mr. Gowrie's grief?

6. What is different between the blacks in the north and the black in the south?

7. Describe the Gowrie clan

8. Why is Charles so interested in why the black worker is plowing the field?

9. Why do you think Mr. Gowrie asks his sons to dig up Vince's grave?

10. Describe Crawford and Vinson's lumber business.

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