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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who moves into the cabin with Christmas?
(a) Hightower
(b) Lukas Burch
(c) Lena Grove
(d) Byron Brown

2. Where did Mrs. Hightower go on Saturday nights?
(a) Shopping
(b) Out to dinner
(c) Memphis
(d) Choir practice

3. When Hightower does not leave, who threatens him by beating him unconscious in the woods near his home?
(a) The Mafia
(b) The Ku Klux Klan
(c) The church elders
(d) A group of thugs

4. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?
(a) Because they do not like team events.
(b) Because they have anti-social personalities
(c) Because they have had disastrous experiences with women before.
(d) Because man is more afraid of change than of the troubles he already has experienced and those familiar to him.

5. What happens as Christmas comes to in Bobbie's room?
(a) He thinks he is dead.
(b) He hears Bobbie and the others prepare to depart.
(c) He counts his money.
(d) He wonders what happened to McEachern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Christmas finds that Miss Burden's behavior is like that of a what?

2. Why does Christmas feel that something powerful is taking over his body and something irreversible is about to happen?

3. What is the intention of the four boys?

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

5. How does Mr. McEachern punish Christmas in the stable

(see the answer key)

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