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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the men in the room discussing?
(a) Why Christmas loves Bobbie
(b) What would make McEachern so mad
(c) Whether Bobbie should go with Christmas
(d) Whether or not Christmas has killed McEachern

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

3. What does Christmas do with the alcohol in the tins?
(a) He drinks it all.
(b) He drinks half and pours the rest on the ground.
(c) He pours it onto the ground.
(d) He drinks half and saves the rest.

4. Why is Lena walking down the dusty road?
(a) She is lost.
(b) She likes to take walks.
(c) She is looking for the father of her child.
(d) She is taking a short cut.

5. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?
(a) Because she is an abolitionist
(b) Because it is none of her business
(c) Because Byron does not like Miss Burden
(d) Because she approves of the whiskey sales

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the dietician tell the janitor about Christmas

2. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?

3. Byron takes Lena to a _______________ so she can spend the night.

4. What does the answer to #65 call the dietician's problem with the Christmas situation?

5. What do the men do to Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Christmas sleep in the stables that night?

2. Why does Byron regret telling Lena that the man in town named Joe Brown is the man she knows as Lucas Burch?

3. Why does Christmas wish that McEachern would discover his absence in the house this night and try to stop him?

4. Joe leaves the whorehouse and enters "the street which was to run for fifteen years." What is the significance of this statement?

5. What is Christmas' final act of naivete regarding Bobbie?

6. How does the Hightower marriage eventually end?

7. Why does Christmas think that his killing McEachern will make him seem heroic in Bobbie's eyes?

8. Why is Byron so skittish as he leads Lena through town to get her settled in a boardinghouse?

9. What is the symbolism of the polished shoes in this chapter?

10. Why does the dietician set out to destroy Christmas after the toothpaste incident?

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