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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Why was Hightower fired from his ministry position?
(a) Because he lacked the proper credentials
(b) Because he took too many vacations
(c) Because of the scandal caused by his wife
(d) Because he was not technically savvy

4. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the north as it is in the south?
(a) He gets his first apartment in the north.
(b) He can sit wherever he wants to in northern restaurants.
(c) It is easier for him to get a job in the north.
(d) A prositute still wants her money even after he tells her he has Negro blood.

5. What does Christmas take from the McEachern house?
(a) All the money that Mrs. McEachern has hidden
(b) His Bible
(c) Food for a long trip
(d) Enough clean clothes for a long weekend

6. As Byron escorts Lena through the crowd in town talking about the fire, what does he not want Lena to hear?
(a) That Lucas Burch was murdered.
(b) That Miss Burden was murdered
(c) That Hightower was murdered.
(d) That Joe Christmas was murdered.

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

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

9. How does Mr. McEachern punish Christmas in the stable
(a) He makes him clean out the stalls.
(b) He makes him do heavy lifting.
(c) He berates him verbally.
(d) He whips him with a heavy strap multiple times.

10. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?
(a) Because it had a nice rectory
(b) Because he liked small towns
(c) Because his grandfather had been killed there during the Civil War
(d) Because he had an old college friend living there

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

12. Who has been living in the cabin on the Burden property?
(a) Lena and Joe Brown
(b) Joe Christmas and Joe Brown
(c) Lena and Joe Christmas
(d) Lena and Lucas Burch

13. Why does Christmas feel that something powerful is taking over his body and something irreversible is about to happen?
(a) Because he has a violent temper
(b) Because Miss Burden had been praying over him
(c) Because he is on a new medication
(d) Because he is drunk

14. Who does Byron fall in love with at first sight?
(a) The bank teller
(b) Miss Burden
(c) Lena
(d) The choir director

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does McKinley think is the father of Lena's baby?

2. How did Mrs. Hightower die?

3. 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?

4. Who did Lena live with in Doane's Mill?

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

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