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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Joe Christmas refrain from beating Joe Brown when he could have easily killed him the night in the cabin?
(a) Because Joe Christmas really wants to kill Miss Burden
(b) Because Joe Christmas does not have the heart of a killer
(c) Because Joe Brown is Joe Christmas' best friend
(d) Because Joe Brown overpowers Joe Christmas

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

3. What topic about girls do Christmas' friends tell him about which he finds very repugnant?
(a) Menstruation
(b) Cliques
(c) PMS
(d) Going steady

4. What is Christmas' plan?
(a) He wants to go to college.
(b) He wants to get a job at the sawmill.
(c) He wants to apologize to his stepfather.
(d) He wants to run away with Bobbie and get married.

5. At whose home does Lena spend the night?
(a) Armstid and his wife, Martha's house
(b) At a rooming house
(c) At the Holiday Inn
(d) At a bed and breakfast inn

6. What happens when Mr. McEachern calls Bobbie a harlot?
(a) Mr. McEachern apologizes to Bobbie.
(b) Christmas takes Bobbie away from the situation.
(c) Christmas apologizes to Bobbie.
(d) Christmas breaks a chair over his head.

7. What do the townspeople do after Mrs. Hightower's death?
(a) They send him on a much-needed vacation.
(b) They force Hightower to resign, lock him out of the church and give him momey to relocate.
(c) They tell him to get his act together.
(d) They send him to a sanitorium,

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

9. What is Lena's hometown?
(a) Montgomery, Alabama
(b) Memphis, Tennessee
(c) Mobile, Alabama
(d) Doane's Mill, Alabama

10. What item in the dietician's bathroom at the orphanage fascinates the five-year-old Christmas?
(a) Perfume
(b) Talcum powder
(c) Makeup
(d) Pink toothpaste

11. Christmas walks into the woods and reaches a point by a small stream where he ___________________.
(a) goes fishing
(b) goes swimming
(c) builds a fire and takes a nap
(d) whittles for awhile

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

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

14. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?
(a) Joe Kennedy
(b) Joe Louis
(c) Joe Christmas
(d) Joe Miller

15. Who is Christmas meeting on this night?
(a) His best friend
(b) His girlfriend
(c) His drug dealer
(d) His real father

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the dietician offer Christmas as a bribe?

2. Why does Mr. McEachern then go to church?

3. How does Mr. McEachern punish Christmas in the stable

4. What does Christmas do when he asks the waitress out and she wants to return home because she has her monthly period?

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

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