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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the deputy tell the sheriff about Lena?
(a) That Lena is nothing but a troublemaker and should be run out of town.
(b) That Lucas Burch is trying to find Lena.
(c) That Joe Brown is also Lucas Burch and the father of Lena's unborn child.
(d) That Lena has asked the deputy to help her find Lucas Burch.

2. What are the men in the room discussing?
(a) Whether Bobbie should go with Christmas
(b) Whether or not Christmas has killed McEachern
(c) What would make McEachern so mad
(d) Why Christmas loves Bobbie

3. Who did Lena live with in Doane's Mill?
(a) Her godparents
(b) Her parents
(c) Her older brother
(d) Her best friend

4. Where does Mr. McEachern find Christmas and Bobbie that night?
(a) At the justice of the peace office
(b) At a dance at a schoolroom in the country
(c) Parked in the woods
(d) At a bar in town

5. Why does Christmas quit his job at the mill?
(a) He is bored with the work at the mill.
(b) He got a better offer from another mill.
(c) He and Brown are partners in the whiskey business.
(d) He is leaving town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christmas trade a black woman for when he is on the run?

2. What are the townspeople eager for over Miss Burden's death?

3. What does Christmas do when he realizes that the waitress sleeps with other men for money?

4. Who tries to prevent the answer to #46 from entering the house to check for survivors?

5. What does Byron tell Hightower has happened at the Burden house?

(see the answer key)

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