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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?
(a) In a bar
(b) Fishing
(c) At the library
(d) In seclusion at his home

2. What does Mr. McEachern make Christmas do later in the day after the punishment?
(a) He makes Christmas vow that he will do better.
(b) He makes Christmas stay in his room for the rest of the weekend.
(c) He makes Christmas kneel on the floor by his bed to pray.
(d) He makes Christmas apologize.

3. Why does Christmas feel that something powerful is taking over his body and something irreversible is about to happen?
(a) Because he is on a new medication
(b) Because Miss Burden had been praying over him
(c) Because he has a violent temper
(d) Because he is drunk

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

5. What does Christmas do with the answer to #77?
(a) He throws it on the floor.
(b) He accepts the gesture from Mrs. McEachern.
(c) He refuses the offering.
(d) He makes her set it outside the door.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Christmas do as he stands underneath Miss Burden's bedroom window?

3. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?

4. Where did Mrs. Hightower go on Saturday nights?

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

(see the answer key)

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