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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Byron need Hightower to get involved with Christmas' plight?
(a) Because Hightower is also a lawyer
(b) Because Hightower knows people in high places
(c) Because Hightower is Christmas' gay lover
(d) Because Hightower is still a man of God

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

3. What happens one day when Christmas is taking some of the answer to #61?
(a) Christmas breaks a valuable keepsake.
(b) The dietician and her lover enter her room for an amorous encounter.
(c) Christmas soils his clothes.
(d) Christmas falls asleep.

4. Where does the janitor take Christmas?
(a) To church
(b) To the movies
(c) To a different orphanage
(d) To a ballgame

5. Why do the townspeople virtually ignore Miss Burden?
(a) Because she is too eccentric
(b) Because she never married
(c) Because she associates with Negroes
(d) Because she is more intelligent than any of them

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Christmas get a job?

2. What does Christmas come to understand about women?

3. What does Miss Burden leave out for Christmas every Saturday?

4. Of what does Hightower accuse Byron of doing?

5. What name does the dietician call Christmas?

(see the answer key)

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