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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why had Hightower originally come to town?
(a) To lead the church choir
(b) To teach Sunday School
(c) To be the priest at the Catholic Church
(d) To be the minister of the Presbyterian Church

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

3. When Christmas' position in the room is revealed, the dietician accuses him of __________.
(a) hiding
(b) spying
(c) stealing
(d) lying

4. What do the other mill workers discover that Joe Christmas has been doing?
(a) Selling whiskey illegally
(b) Volunteering at the hospital
(c) Driving a cab
(d) Working the night shift

5. What do the townspeople do after Mrs. Hightower's death?
(a) They send him on a much-needed vacation.
(b) They force Hightower to resign, lock him out of the church and give him momey to relocate.
(c) They tell him to get his act together.
(d) They send him to a sanitorium,

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What item in the dietician's bathroom at the orphanage fascinates the five-year-old Christmas?

3. Christmas leaves the cabin taking with him _________________________.

4. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?

5. Who does Byron fall in love with at first sight?

(see the answer key)

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