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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To where does Miss Burden make arrangements for Christmas to go?
(a) A negro college
(b) Florida for a vacation
(c) Back to Chicago
(d) Auto mechanic school

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

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

4. Christmas leaves the cabin taking with him _________________________.
(a) a girlie/gun magazine, razor, shaving brush and shaving soap
(b) a list of errands he has to accomplish today
(c) some letters he has to mail
(d) all the spare cash he can find

5. This chapter goes back in time to provide the reader with information about events. This technique is called _________________.
(a) plot reversal
(b) timeline redux
(c) chronological manipulation
(d) flashback

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hightower do to supplement his monthly inheritance since he lost his position at the church twenty-five years ago?

3. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?

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

5. In the morning, Christmas returns to the cabin and dresses in _____________________.

(see the answer key)

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