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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hightower's grandfather wear during the Civil War?
(a) A minister's frock
(b) A business suit
(c) A foreign uniform
(d) A plain pair of pants and simple shirt

2. What does Mrs. Hines reveal to Hightower?
(a) That she has never been to Jefferson before
(b) That Christmas is the bastard son of their deceased daughter, Milly
(c) That she would like to lead a choir someday
(d) That she respects his position in the community

3. What does Hightower understand when he hears the choir's songs emanating from his old church?
(a) That the organ desperately needs tuning
(b) That the songs are chosen for specific reasons
(c) That the townspeople plan on crucifying Christmas
(d) That he does not like the new songs he hears

4. Christmas finds that Miss Burden's behavior is like that of a what?
(a) nymphomaniac
(b) preacher's wife
(c) virgin
(d) whore

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

6. Why did Hightower's grandfather never visit his son's home?
(a) Because the trip was too far
(b) Because he could not leave his farm
(c) Because his son was an abolitionist
(d) Because he thought letters were sufficient

7. What does Christmas do on the side without telling Miss Burden?
(a) Sells drugs
(b) Sees other women
(c) Takes art classes
(d) Sells whiskey

8. What favor does Byron ask of Hightower?
(a) To bring his medical book to the cabin and deliver Lena's baby
(b) To consider practicing as a minister once again
(c) To lend him enough money to leave town
(d) To talk to Christmas about the murder of Miss Burden

9. How does the fading afternoon light seem to Hightower?
(a) rosy
(b) sentimental
(c) sad
(d) audible

10. How old is Miss Burden when she discovers him stealing food from her house?
(a) Forty-one years old
(b) Twenty-five years old
(c) Thirty-years old
(d) Fifty-three years old

11. Who do the townspeople think inspired Christmas to attempt an escape?
(a) Mrs. Hines
(b) Byron
(c) Lena
(d) Hightower

12. Of what does Hightower accuse Byron of doing?
(a) Initiating an inappropriate relationship with the pregnant Lena
(b) Running bootleg whiskey with Christmas
(c) Selling out Christmas to help his pregnant girlfriend's lover get the thousand-dollar reward
(d) Hiding the whereabouts of Lena's former lover

13. What does Miss Burden leave out for Christmas every Saturday?
(a) A paycheck
(b) A to-do list
(c) A meal in the kitchen
(d) A Bible lesson

14. Why does Brown tell Lena he cannot stay at the cabin?
(a) He does not think the child is his.
(b) He is very busy with securing the reward funds.
(c) He has plans with some friends in town.
(d) He does not love her anymore.

15. How does Milly Hines die?
(a) Giving birth to Christmas
(b) In a house fire
(c) In a car accident
(d) By taking sleeping pills

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the townspeople virtually ignore Miss Burden?

2. Instead of leaving town like the sheriff thinks he will do, what does Byron do that night?

3. How is Christmas killed?

4. Where does the stranger take Christmas?

5. What does the old man do when he hears that Christmas has killed a white woman?

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