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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Lena walking down the dusty road?
(a) She is lost.
(b) She likes to take walks.
(c) She is looking for the father of her child.
(d) She is taking a short cut.

2. A negro awakens the sheriff at his home to tell him that a white man has terrorized some black people ____________.
(a) at church
(b) at a bus station
(c) at a restaurant
(d) at the sawmill

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

4. What does the old man do when he hears that Christmas has killed a white woman?
(a) He provides bail.
(b) He visits Christmas in jail.
(c) He beats him with a stick.
(d) He offers him refuge in his home.

5. What does the old woman instinctively know about Christmas without even seeing him?
(a) That he will be hanged for his crime
(b) That he is not capable of murder
(c) That he is a murderer
(d) That he is their grandson

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the townspeople virtually ignore Miss Burden?

3. Why was Hightower fired from his ministry position?

4. The baby's first cry also has a strong emotional release for Byron. Why?

5. What happens one day when Christmas is taking some of the answer to #61?

(see the answer key)

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