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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Christmas do with the alcohol in the tins?
(a) He drinks half and saves the rest.
(b) He drinks it all.
(c) He drinks half and pours the rest on the ground.
(d) He pours it onto the ground.

2. What do the other mill workers discover that Joe Christmas has been doing?
(a) Driving a cab
(b) Selling whiskey illegally
(c) Volunteering at the hospital
(d) Working the night shift

3. Joe begins to work very hard at the farm and soon Mr. McEachern gives him a new _________.
(a) heifer
(b) motorcycle
(c) car
(d) Bible

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

5. How does Christmas escape the McEachern house one night?
(a) He leaves when the McEacherns are at church.
(b) He hitches a ride to the nearby bus station.
(c) He shimmies down a rope hanging from his bedroom window.
(d) He pretends to go to school but runs away.

6. What does Christmas do when he has no money to pay the answer to #112?
(a) He tells them he is of Negro blood and they chase him away with no thought of payment.
(b) They tell him to use a credit card.
(c) They tell him that they will take a check.
(d) They call the authorities on him.

7. What does Christmas take from Mrs. McEachern's secret hiding place?
(a) A diary
(b) A deed
(c) Letters
(d) Money

8. Why is Lena walking down the dusty road?
(a) She is lost.
(b) She is taking a short cut.
(c) She likes to take walks.
(d) She is looking for the father of her child.

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

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

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

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

13. What is in the six metal tins which Christmas digs up in a nearby ditch?
(a) vodka
(b) gin
(c) rum
(d) whiskey

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

15. Who does McKinley think is the father of Lena's baby?
(a) Larry MacKenzie
(b) Mike Bowers
(c) Carlton Howard
(d) Lucas Burch

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christmas announce to everyone present?

2. How many days pass before Christmas is returned to the orphanage?

3. Byron tells Hightower that a ______________ discovered the fire at the Burden place yesterday morning.

4. Why is Christmas shocked when he arrives at Bobbie's?

5. What does Christmas take from the McEachern house?

(see the answer keys)

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