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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the answer to #46 discover when he finds Miss Burden?
(a) That she is still alive
(b) That her head has been almost severed from her body
(c) That she has been burned almost beyond recognition
(d) That she is incoherent

2. Who has been living in the cabin on the Burden property?
(a) Lena and Joe Christmas
(b) Joe Christmas and Joe Brown
(c) Lena and Lucas Burch
(d) Lena and Joe Brown

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

4. Who makes plans to adopt Christmas and take him away from the orphanage?
(a) Miss Burden
(b) Rev. Hightower
(c) The janitor
(d) Mr. and Mrs. McEachern

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Christmas and Brown call work at the mill after they quit?

2. Byron tells Hightower that a ______________ discovered the fire at the Burden place yesterday morning.

3. Mr. McEachern tells Christmas that the name "Christmas" is _________ and the boy will be called McEachern.

4. How did Mrs. Hightower die?

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

(see the answer key)

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