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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the janitor take Christmas?
(a) To a different orphanage
(b) To a ballgame
(c) To church
(d) To the movies

2. How does Milly Hines die?
(a) In a car accident
(b) In a house fire
(c) Giving birth to Christmas
(d) By taking sleeping pills

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

4. What does the dietician tell the janitor about Christmas
(a) That he will be adopted soon
(b) That he will never be adopted
(c) That he is a nigger and will have to be sent to a nigger orphanage
(d) That he is too old to stay in this orphanage

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Christmas get a job?

2. Why does Byron need Hightower to get involved with Christmas' plight?

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

4. Who makes plans to adopt Christmas and take him away from the orphanage?

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

(see the answer key)

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