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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Byron fall in love with at first sight?
(a) The choir director
(b) Lena
(c) The bank teller
(d) Miss Burden

2. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?
(a) Because man is more afraid of change than of the troubles he already has experienced and those familiar to him.
(b) Because they have anti-social personalities
(c) Because they do not like team events.
(d) Because they have had disastrous experiences with women before.

3. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?
(a) Joe Kennedy
(b) Joe Louis
(c) Joe Christmas
(d) Joe Miller

4. When Hightower does not leave, who threatens him by beating him unconscious in the woods near his home?
(a) The Ku Klux Klan
(b) The church elders
(c) The Mafia
(d) A group of thugs

5. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?
(a) In a bar
(b) Fishing
(c) In seclusion at his home
(d) At the library

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lena carry to prevent them from getting dirty?

2. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?

3. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?

4. Lena asks Byron if Joe Brown has a _________ by his mouth.

5. What is Lena's hometown?

(see the answer key)

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