1. How does the relationship between Christmas and Miss Burden evolve?
(a) They become lovers.
(b) The friendship cools off after a year.
(c) He becomes the manager of her farm.
(d) They become best friends.

2. How old is Miss Burden when she discovers him stealing food from her house?
(a) Forty-one years old
(b) Twenty-five years old
(c) Thirty-years old
(d) Fifty-three years old

3. What is the intention of the four boys?
(a) They want to get drunk.
(b) They are going to have sex with a Negro girl waiting inside the sawmill.
(c) They want to meet some wild girls from out of town.
(d) They want to smoke some dope inside the sawmill.

4. Christmas is out late with his friends despite the fact that he knows that McEachern will punish him when he gets home. How will Christmas be punished?
(a) McEachern will verbally abuse him.
(b) McEachern will take away his allowance.
(c) McEachern will beat him.
(d) McEachern will ground him.

5. What are the townspeople eager for over Miss Burden's death?
(a) the process of justice
(b) a conviction
(c) vengeance
(d) a suspect

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only one who knows that Byron drives all night on Saturdays in order to conduct the choir at a distant country church and then drive home in time to go to work on Mondays?

2. What favor does Byron ask of Hightower?

3. What does Christmas do with the answer to #77?

4. This chapter goes back in time to provide the reader with information about events. This technique is called _________________.

5. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?

(see the answer key)

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