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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Brown
(b) Former minister Hightower
(c) Christmas
(d) Lucas Burch

2. What name does the dietician call Christmas?
(a) nigger bastard
(b) little rascal
(c) stupid brat
(d) filthy bastard

3. Why will Lena not accept Byron's marriage proposal?
(a) Because Byron is sexually unattractive to her
(b) Because she has not seen Joe Brown/Lucas Burch yet
(c) Because Byron does not make enough money to support her
(d) Because Byron is of a different religious belief

4. Where do Christmas and Brown live?
(a) In a rented house
(b) In a hotel
(c) In the cabin on Miss Burden's property
(d) In a studio apartment

5. What does Christmas do when he asks the waitress out and she wants to return home because she has her monthly period?
(a) He never talks to her again.
(b) He tells her that they can make a date for another night.
(c) He ignores her.
(d) He hits her, runs away to the woods and vomits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. McEachern want Christmas to do?

2. Who is the other man who shows up unexpectedly at the mill for a job?

3. What does the deputy tell the sheriff about Lena?

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

5. What does Joe Brown do after the murder?

(see the answer key)

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