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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 topic about girls do Christmas' friends tell him about which he finds very repugnant?
(a) Going steady
(b) Cliques
(c) PMS
(d) Menstruation

2. What does the answer to #46 discover when he finds Miss Burden?
(a) That she is still alive
(b) That she is incoherent
(c) That she has been burned almost beyond recognition
(d) That her head has been almost severed from her body

3. Who tries to prevent the answer to #46 from entering the house to check for survivors?
(a) A sheriff's deputy
(b) A policeman
(c) A drunken man
(d) A neighbor

4. Joe begins to work very hard at the farm and soon Mr. McEachern gives him a new _________.
(a) motorcycle
(b) heifer
(c) Bible
(d) car

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the six metal tins which Christmas digs up in a nearby ditch?

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

3. Where does Lena go the next morning?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the details of the murder as told by Byron in this chapter?

2. Why are the people of Jefferson not sure that Reverend Hightower is interested in them?

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

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

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

6. What does the dietician's pink toothpaste symbolize for Christmas?

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

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

9. Why has Lena left her home in Alabama?

10. How do the people get their first indications that something is awry in the Hightower marriage?

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