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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Miss Burden when she discovers him stealing food from her house?
(a) Twenty-five years old
(b) Thirty-years old
(c) Forty-one years old
(d) Fifty-three years old

2. What name does the dietician call Christmas?
(a) stupid brat
(b) filthy bastard
(c) nigger bastard
(d) little rascal

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

4. Christmas is out late with his friends despite the fact that he knows that McEachern will punish him when he gets home. How will Christmas be punished?
(a) McEachern will beat him.
(b) McEachern will verbally abuse him.
(c) McEachern will ground him.
(d) McEachern will take away his allowance.

5. How much time does Byron spend at the mill?
(a) 40 hours
(b) Part-time hours
(c) Whatever he feels like
(d) Six days a week

Short Answer Questions

1. What item in the dietician's bathroom at the orphanage fascinates the five-year-old Christmas?

2. Why do the townspeople think Joe Christmas has committed the murder of Miss Burden?

3. Who does Joe Brown accuse of murdering the answer to #42?

4. What does the dietician offer Christmas as a bribe?

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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