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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hightower understand when he hears the choir's songs emanating from his old church?
(a) That he does not like the new songs he hears
(b) That the songs are chosen for specific reasons
(c) That the townspeople plan on crucifying Christmas
(d) That the organ desperately needs tuning

3. What does the dietician tell the janitor about Christmas
(a) That he will be adopted soon
(b) That he is too old to stay in this orphanage
(c) That he will never be adopted
(d) That he is a nigger and will have to be sent to a nigger orphanage

4. What does Mr. McEachern see from his bedroom window one night?
(a) The shadow of Christmas running by to get into an arriving car
(b) Two tramps scavenging for food
(c) The scarecrow in the vegetable garden
(d) Mrs. McEachern walking in the moonlight.

5. Byron takes Lena to a _______________ so she can spend the night.
(a) hotel
(b) bed and breakfast
(c) boardinghouse
(d) hostel

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Byron not tell Lena that Joe Brown is actually Lucas Burch?

2. What does Miss Burden insist that Christmas do every day to prove his faithfulness?

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

4. How does Milly Hines die?

5. A negro awakens the sheriff at his home to tell him that a white man has terrorized some black people ____________.

(see the answer key)

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