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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the answer to #65 call the dietician's problem with the Christmas situation?
(a) disgusting
(b) typical
(c) sinful
(d) womanfilth

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

3. Who is the other man who shows up unexpectedly at the mill for a job?
(a) Brown
(b) Black
(c) Miller
(d) White

4. Christmas leaves the cabin taking with him _________________________.
(a) a girlie/gun magazine, razor, shaving brush and shaving soap
(b) some letters he has to mail
(c) all the spare cash he can find
(d) a list of errands he has to accomplish today

5. Where does Lena go the next morning?
(a) She tries to get a job at the general store.
(b) She gets a wagon ride to Jefferson.
(c) She takes a train to Atlanta.
(d) She hitches a ride back home.

6. This chapter goes back in time to provide the reader with information about events. This technique is called _________________.
(a) plot reversal
(b) timeline redux
(c) chronological manipulation
(d) flashback

7. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?
(a) In a bar
(b) Fishing
(c) In seclusion at his home
(d) At the library

8. What does Christmas do with the waitress?
(a) They sing in the church choir.
(b) They go to the movies.
(c) They go out drinking in another town.
(d) They meet two nights a week to have sex.

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

10. What does Hightower do to supplement his monthly inheritance since he lost his position at the church twenty-five years ago?
(a) He does people's taxes.
(b) He is a writer.
(c) He provides artistic services.
(d) He has a landscaping business.

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

12. Why does Mr. McEachern then go to church?
(a) To ask God to rid him of the burden of Christmas.
(b) To set up the hymnals for the next day's services
(c) To expiate his sins
(d) To ask God for help in raising Christmas

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

14. Whose services does Christmas use many times over the years?
(a) Electricians
(b) Plumbers
(c) Dry cleaners
(d) Prositutes

15. What is the demeanor of the answer to #13?
(a) Easygoing and happy
(b) The life of the party
(c) Intelligent and serious
(d) Proud and contemptuous

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the townspeople do after Mrs. Hightower's death?

2. What does Christmas do when he leaves the house?

3. Why does Christmas decide to sleep in the stables instead of the cabin?

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

5. What does Mrs. McEachern bring Christmas after Mr. McEachern leaves?

(see the answer keys)

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