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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?
(a) She refuses to go to choir practice.
(b) She has no interest in fundraising drives.
(c) She refuses to join in Bible study groups.
(d) She interrupts her husband's Sunday sermon by standing in the church aisle shrieking at him.

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

3. How does Mr. McEachern punish Christmas in the stable
(a) He whips him with a heavy strap multiple times.
(b) He makes him do heavy lifting.
(c) He makes him clean out the stalls.
(d) He berates him verbally.

4. How did Mrs. Hightower die?
(a) She was in a car accident.
(b) She either fell or jumped from a Memphis hotel room.
(c) She took an overdose of sleeping pills.
(d) She had a heart attack.

5. What does Christmas do when he returns to the spring?
(a) He picks some berries for a treat.
(b) He takes another nap.
(c) He writes in his diary.
(d) He eats breakfast and reads his magazine cover-to-cover.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after Miss Burden opens up about her family history?

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

3. Christmas walks into the woods and reaches a point by a small stream where he ___________________.

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

5. What does Miss Burden insist that Christmas do every day to prove his faithfulness?

(see the answer key)

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