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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the old man do when he hears that Christmas has killed a white woman?
(a) He provides bail.
(b) He offers him refuge in his home.
(c) He beats him with a stick.
(d) He visits Christmas in jail.

2. How has Hightower always perceived his parents?
(a) As the best parents a child could ever have
(b) As two people very much in love
(c) As good business partners
(d) As two ghosts inhabiting the same house

3. What does Joe Brown do after the murder?
(a) He tries to get word to Christmas that the sheriff is looking for him.
(b) He runs away from town as fast as he can.
(c) He shows up in town, idenitifies Christmas as the murderer and claims the reward.
(d) He admits to killing Miss Burden.

4. What happens after Miss Burden opens up about her family history?
(a) Christmas makes fun of the woman's version of history.
(b) Christmas gets bored with Miss Burden's cloying presence.
(c) Miss Burden asks Christmas to marry her.
(d) She lets Christmas eat in the kitchen and meet her in her bedroom later.

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

6. Why does Lena move into the cabin?
(a) Her baby is due soon and she wants to give her child a home.
(b) She does not want to return home.
(c) She thinks it is Lucas Burch's house.
(d) She is tired and needs a place to rest.

7. What does Hightower ask Lena to do when he returns to the cabin later that day?
(a) To name the baby after him
(b) To not force Byron to stay with her because she has another man's child
(c) To marry Byron so the baby will have a father in his life
(d) To let him be the godfather of the new baby

8. Of what does Hightower think his mother died?
(a) Cancer
(b) Malnutrition
(c) Diabetes
(d) Heart trouble

9. What does Christmas eat while on the run?
(a) nuts
(b) rotten fruit and hard corn
(c) cheese and bread
(d) berries

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

11. What does Christmas come to understand about women?
(a) They are all very moody at times.
(b) Some are always going to be good and some are always going to be bad for you.
(c) When they finally surrender completely, it is going to be in words.
(d) They are basically the same no matter what their age.

12. What does the old woman instinctively know about Christmas without even seeing him?
(a) That he is a murderer
(b) That he will be hanged for his crime
(c) That he is their grandson
(d) That he is not capable of murder

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

14. What does Christmas trade a black woman for when he is on the run?
(a) shoes
(b) a Bible
(c) money
(d) food

15. Who does Byron bring to Hightower's house?
(a) Lena's parents
(b) Lucas Burch
(c) Mr. and Mrs. Gould
(d) Mr. and Mrs. Hines

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the deputy tell the sheriff about Lena?

2. What does Hightower's grandfather wear during the Civil War?

3. What final horror is inflicted on Christmas before he dies?

4. How is Christmas killed?

5. Where does Christmas get a job?

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