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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 back home to ask for forgiveness.
(c) He runs and runs for fifteen years.
(d) He goes to the sheriff's office to confess to killing McEachern.

2. Christmas finds that Miss Burden's behavior is like that of a what?
(a) whore
(b) preacher's wife
(c) virgin
(d) nymphomaniac

3. What does Christmas do after he awakens?
(a) He goes to a small store nearby to buy food for breakfast.
(b) He decides to just spend the day daydreaming at the stream.
(c) He writes some letters that he has been been delaying.
(d) He cooks the fish he has caught.

4. What does Miss Burden insist that Christmas do every day to prove his faithfulness?
(a) Check for a love letter in a hollow tree
(b) Bring her chocolates
(c) Pick her some flowers
(d) Write her a poem

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Hightower does not leave, who threatens him by beating him unconscious in the woods near his home?

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

3. What does Christmas sell in order to buy a new suit?

4. Where is Christmas headed with his three friends?

5. How did Mrs. Hightower die?

(see the answer key)

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