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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Hines reveal to Hightower?
(a) That she would like to lead a choir someday
(b) That Christmas is the bastard son of their deceased daughter, Milly
(c) That she has never been to Jefferson before
(d) That she respects his position in the community

3. Of what does Hightower accuse Byron of doing?
(a) Selling out Christmas to help his pregnant girlfriend's lover get the thousand-dollar reward
(b) Initiating an inappropriate relationship with the pregnant Lena
(c) Hiding the whereabouts of Lena's former lover
(d) Running bootleg whiskey with Christmas

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

5. What name does the dietician call Christmas?
(a) stupid brat
(b) filthy bastard
(c) little rascal
(d) nigger bastard

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Milly Hines die?

2. Where does the janitor take Christmas?

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

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

5. What item in the dietician's bathroom at the orphanage fascinates the five-year-old Christmas?

(see the answer key)

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