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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the townspeople virtually ignore Miss Burden?
(a) Because she is more intelligent than any of them
(b) Because she never married
(c) Because she associates with Negroes
(d) Because she is too eccentric

2. What item in the dietician's bathroom at the orphanage fascinates the five-year-old Christmas?
(a) Pink toothpaste
(b) Talcum powder
(c) Perfume
(d) Makeup

3. Who does Byron bring to Hightower's house?
(a) Mr. and Mrs. Gould
(b) Mr. and Mrs. Hines
(c) Lena's parents
(d) Lucas Burch

4. Why does Byron need Hightower to get involved with Christmas' plight?
(a) Because Hightower is still a man of God
(b) Because Hightower knows people in high places
(c) Because Hightower is Christmas' gay lover
(d) Because Hightower is also a lawyer

5. Where does Christmas get a job?
(a) At the planing mill
(b) At the gas station
(c) At the dry goods store
(d) At the bus station

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christmas come to understand about women?

2. How many days pass before Christmas is returned to the orphanage?

3. What does Miss Burden leave out for Christmas every Saturday?

4. Of what does Hightower accuse Byron of doing?

5. What does Hightower understand when he hears the choir's songs emanating from his old church?

(see the answer key)

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