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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mr. McEachern then go to church?
(a) To expiate his sins
(b) To set up the hymnals for the next day's services
(c) To ask God for help in raising Christmas
(d) To ask God to rid him of the burden of Christmas.

2. Why had Hightower originally come to town?
(a) To lead the church choir
(b) To teach Sunday School
(c) To be the priest at the Catholic Church
(d) To be the minister of the Presbyterian Church

3. What does Christmas do when he leaves the house?
(a) He goes back home to ask for forgiveness.
(b) He runs and runs for fifteen years.
(c) He asks his stepmother for more money.
(d) He goes to the sheriff's office to confess to killing McEachern.

4. Christmas is out late with his friends despite the fact that he knows that McEachern will punish him when he gets home. How will Christmas be punished?
(a) McEachern will take away his allowance.
(b) McEachern will ground him.
(c) McEachern will beat him.
(d) McEachern will verbally abuse him.

5. The story transitions from an eight-year-old Christmas to Christmas at ___________________.
(a) ten-years-old
(b) eighteen-years-old
(c) twenty-years-old
(d) fourteen-years-old

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christmas do with the alcohol in the tins?

2. What do the townspeople do after Mrs. Hightower's death?

3. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?

4. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the north as it is in the south?

5. What does Christmas do with the answer to #77?

(see the answer key)

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