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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. McEachern want Christmas to do?
(a) Become a better fisherman
(b) Chop more wood for the house
(c) Memorize his catechism studies
(d) Learn how to farm

2. How does Mr. McEachern punish Christmas in the stable
(a) He makes him do heavy lifting.
(b) He whips him with a heavy strap multiple times.
(c) He berates him verbally.
(d) He makes him clean out the stalls.

3. Why does Christmas decide to sleep in the stables instead of the cabin?
(a) Because he has a new horse and wants to stay close to him
(b) Because it is too hot in the cabin
(c) Because his horse is about to give birth
(d) Because he wants to smell the horses which are masculine

4. What does the answer to #46 discover when he finds Miss Burden?
(a) That she has been burned almost beyond recognition
(b) That she is incoherent
(c) That she is still alive
(d) That her head has been almost severed from her body

5. What happens one day when Christmas is taking some of the answer to #61?
(a) Christmas soils his clothes.
(b) The dietician and her lover enter her room for an amorous encounter.
(c) Christmas falls asleep.
(d) Christmas breaks a valuable keepsake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the townspeople think Joe Christmas has committed the murder of Miss Burden?

2. What does the dietician tell the janitor about Christmas

3. What does Christmas do with the alcohol in the tins?

4. The story transitions from an eight-year-old Christmas to Christmas at ___________________.

5. What is in the six metal tins which Christmas digs up in a nearby ditch?

(see the answer key)

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