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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?
(a) She interrupts her husband's Sunday sermon by standing in the church aisle shrieking at him.
(b) She refuses to go to choir practice.
(c) She refuses to join in Bible study groups.
(d) She has no interest in fundraising drives.

2. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?
(a) Because he liked small towns
(b) Because he had an old college friend living there
(c) Because it had a nice rectory
(d) Because his grandfather had been killed there during the Civil War

3. Where does Lena go the next morning?
(a) She hitches a ride back home.
(b) She takes a train to Atlanta.
(c) She gets a wagon ride to Jefferson.
(d) She tries to get a job at the general store.

4. What does Hightower do to supplement his monthly inheritance since he lost his position at the church twenty-five years ago?
(a) He is a writer.
(b) He does people's taxes.
(c) He provides artistic services.
(d) He has a landscaping business.

5. How much older than Lena is McKinley?
(a) 13 years
(b) 7 years
(c) 10 years
(d) 20 years

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does McKinley think is the father of Lena's baby?

2. Who does Byron fall in love with at first sight?

3. 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?

4. What happens to Lena after she sneaks out of McKinley's house one night?

5. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?

(see the answer key)

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