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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. Who makes plans to adopt Christmas and take him away from the orphanage?
(a) Miss Burden
(b) Mr. and Mrs. McEachern
(c) The janitor
(d) Rev. Hightower

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

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

4. 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 Joe Christmas was murdered.
(c) That Miss Burden was murdered
(d) That Hightower was murdered.

5. What does Christmas do when the horse he is riding back to town runs out of energy?
(a) He rests while the horse rests.
(b) He walks the horse back to the barn.
(c) He abandons the horse and runs to town.
(d) He trots the horse into town.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Christmas do with the answer to #77?

3. What do the other mill workers discover that Joe Christmas has been doing?

4. What does Mr. McEachern want Christmas to do?

5. What topic about girls do Christmas' friends tell him about which he finds very repugnant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the townspeople believe that the former Reverend Hightower's wife had disgraced him?

2. Why does Christmas take Mrs. McEachern's hidden money as she watches him do it?

3. Why is McEachern's death symbolic in this chapter?

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

5. Why does Christmas know that something is going to happen to him on this night?

6. Why is Bobbie attracted to Christmas?

7. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the North as it is in the South?

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

9. What is the irony of McEachern beating Christmas for not memorizing his catechism lesson?

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

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