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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Byron escorts Lena through the crowd in town talking about the fire, what does he not want Lena to hear?
(a) That Hightower was murdered.
(b) That Miss Burden was murdered
(c) That Joe Christmas was murdered.
(d) That Lucas Burch was murdered.

2. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?
(a) Because she was evicted.
(b) Because it will soon be a ghost town.
(c) Because she lost her job.
(d) Because she does not like anybody there.

3. What do Christmas and Brown call work at the mill after they quit?
(a) "nigger's work"
(b) "too damn hard"
(c) "boring"
(d) "a real back breaker"

4. Who does Byron fall in love with at first sight?
(a) Lena
(b) The bank teller
(c) Miss Burden
(d) The choir director

5. Who befriends Hightower after twenty years of his seclusion?
(a) Joe Christmas
(b) Lena Grove
(c) Byron Bunch
(d) Miss Atkins

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lena go the next morning?

2. Who is Lena's brother?

3. At whose home does Lena spend the night?

4. How much time does Byron spend at the mill?

5. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?

(see the answer key)

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