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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hightower understand when he hears the choir's songs emanating from his old church?
(a) That the songs are chosen for specific reasons
(b) That the organ desperately needs tuning
(c) That the townspeople plan on crucifying Christmas
(d) That he does not like the new songs he hears

3. Who makes plans to adopt Christmas and take him away from the orphanage?
(a) The janitor
(b) Mr. and Mrs. McEachern
(c) Rev. Hightower
(d) Miss Burden

4. Who does the dietician approach to exact her revenge on Christmas?
(a) the principal
(b) the math teacher
(c) the school nurse
(d) the janitor

5. What does the dietician offer Christmas as a bribe?
(a) a silver dollar
(b) a visit to a theme park
(c) a trip into town
(d) an afternoon at the movies

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the relationship between Christmas and Miss Burden evolve?

2. Of what does Hightower accuse Byron of doing?

3. Mr. McEachern tells Christmas that the name "Christmas" is _________ and the boy will be called McEachern.

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

5. What name does the dietician call Christmas?

(see the answer key)

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