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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mr. McEachern find Christmas and Bobbie that night?
(a) Parked in the woods
(b) At a dance at a schoolroom in the country
(c) At the justice of the peace office
(d) At a bar in town

2. What does Christmas do when the horse he is riding back to town runs out of energy?
(a) He abandons the horse and runs to town.
(b) He rests while the horse rests.
(c) He trots the horse into town.
(d) He walks the horse back to the barn.

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

4. What does Mr. McEachern want Christmas to do?
(a) Become a better fisherman
(b) Chop more wood for the house
(c) Learn how to farm
(d) Memorize his catechism studies

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

6. Who has been living in the cabin on the Burden property?
(a) Lena and Joe Brown
(b) Lena and Lucas Burch
(c) Joe Christmas and Joe Brown
(d) Lena and Joe Christmas

7. Why is Christmas shocked when he arrives at Bobbie's?
(a) He finds her employers and two other men in her room.
(b) He did not know Bobbie would have so many suitcases.
(c) Bobbie is not packed yet.
(d) Bobbie is not there.

8. Who is the other man who shows up unexpectedly at the mill for a job?
(a) Black
(b) Miller
(c) Brown
(d) White

9. What does Mr. McEachern make Christmas do later in the day after the punishment?
(a) He makes Christmas apologize.
(b) He makes Christmas stay in his room for the rest of the weekend.
(c) He makes Christmas vow that he will do better.
(d) He makes Christmas kneel on the floor by his bed to pray.

10. What is Joe Christmas' biggest secret?
(a) He is a fugitive.
(b) He is part Negro.
(c) He is a bastard.
(d) He is a thief.

11. This chapter goes back in time to provide the reader with information about events. This technique is called _________________.
(a) timeline redux
(b) flashback
(c) plot reversal
(d) chronological manipulation

12. 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 verbally abuse him.
(b) McEachern will beat him.
(c) McEachern will ground him.
(d) McEachern will take away his allowance.

13. What does Christmas do when he returns to the spring?
(a) He eats breakfast and reads his magazine cover-to-cover.
(b) He picks some berries for a treat.
(c) He takes another nap.
(d) He writes in his diary.

14. Who is Lena's brother?
(a) McKinley
(b) Matthew
(c) Michael
(d) McKenzie

15. When Christmas' position in the room is revealed, the dietician accuses him of __________.
(a) spying
(b) hiding
(c) stealing
(d) lying

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Lena live with in Doane's Mill?

2. Why does Christmas quit his job at the mill?

3. What does Mrs. McEachern bring Christmas after Mr. McEachern leaves?

4. Where does Lena go the next morning?

5. What do the men do to Christmas?

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