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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Joe Christmas' biggest secret?
(a) He is a fugitive.
(b) He is a thief.
(c) He is a bastard.
(d) He is part Negro.

2. 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.

3. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?
(a) Because she is an abolitionist
(b) Because she approves of the whiskey sales
(c) Because Byron does not like Miss Burden
(d) Because it is none of her business

4. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?
(a) Because it had a nice rectory
(b) Because his grandfather had been killed there during the Civil War
(c) Because he liked small towns
(d) Because he had an old college friend living there

5. Who does the dietician approach to exact her revenge on Christmas?
(a) the math teacher
(b) the janitor
(c) the principal
(d) the school nurse

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the janitor take Christmas?

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

3. Who tries to prevent the answer to #46 from entering the house to check for survivors?

4. Why had Hightower originally come to town?

5. How many days pass before Christmas is returned to the orphanage?

(see the answer key)

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