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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Christmas headed with his three friends?
(a) To the local bar
(b) To the river
(c) To a deserted sawmill
(d) To the next town

3. What does Hightower do to supplement his monthly inheritance since he lost his position at the church twenty-five years ago?
(a) He is a writer.
(b) He provides artistic services.
(c) He does people's taxes.
(d) He has a landscaping business.

4. What is the intention of the four boys?
(a) They are going to have sex with a Negro girl waiting inside the sawmill.
(b) They want to get drunk.
(c) They want to smoke some dope inside the sawmill.
(d) They want to meet some wild girls from out of town.

5. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the north as it is in the south?
(a) A prositute still wants her money even after he tells her he has Negro blood.
(b) It is easier for him to get a job in the north.
(c) He can sit wherever he wants to in northern restaurants.
(d) He gets his first apartment in the north.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Christmas do after he awakens?

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

4. Whose services does Christmas use many times over the years?

5. What is in the six metal tins which Christmas digs up in a nearby ditch?

(see the answer key)

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