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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Hightower fired from his ministry position?
(a) Because he took too many vacations
(b) Because he was not technically savvy
(c) Because of the scandal caused by his wife
(d) Because he lacked the proper credentials

2. What item in the dietician's bathroom at the orphanage fascinates the five-year-old Christmas?
(a) Talcum powder
(b) Pink toothpaste
(c) Makeup
(d) Perfume

3. Who is the only one who knows that Byron drives all night on Saturdays in order to conduct the choir at a distant country church and then drive home in time to go to work on Mondays?
(a) Christmas
(b) Brown
(c) Former minister Hightower
(d) Lucas Burch

4. What do the other mill workers discover that Joe Christmas has been doing?
(a) Volunteering at the hospital
(b) Working the night shift
(c) Driving a cab
(d) Selling whiskey illegally

5. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?
(a) Because he liked small towns
(b) Because his grandfather had been killed there during the Civil War
(c) Because he had an old college friend living there
(d) Because it had a nice rectory

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christmas do when he returns to the spring?

2. As Byron escorts Lena through the crowd in town talking about the fire, what does he not want Lena to hear?

3. Where do Christmas and Brown live?

4. Who does Byron fall in love with at first sight?

5. What does Byron tell Hightower about Lena?

(see the answer key)

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