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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?
(a) She has no interest in fundraising drives.
(b) She refuses to join in Bible study groups.
(c) She refuses to go to choir practice.
(d) She interrupts her husband's Sunday sermon by standing in the church aisle shrieking at him.

5. What does Mrs. McEachern bring Christmas after Mr. McEachern leaves?
(a) A tray of food
(b) Some clean clothes
(c) Some hot chocolate
(d) A Bible

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Joe Christmas' biggest secret?

2. Where does Mr. McEachern find Christmas and Bobbie that night?

3. Who is the other man who shows up unexpectedly at the mill for a job?

4. How does Mr. McEachern punish Christmas in the stable

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

(see the answer key)

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