View a FREE sample

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 bastard.
(b) He is part Negro.
(c) He is a thief.
(d) He is a fugitive.

2. Why does Christmas decide to sleep in the stables instead of the cabin?
(a) Because it is too hot in the cabin
(b) Because he wants to smell the horses which are masculine
(c) Because his horse is about to give birth
(d) Because he has a new horse and wants to stay close to him

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

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

5. How many days pass before Christmas is returned to the orphanage?
(a) 5
(b) 7
(c) 3
(d) 2

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Byron not tell Lena that Joe Brown is actually Lucas Burch?

2. Where did Mrs. Hightower go on Saturday nights?

3. What happens one day when Christmas is taking some of the answer to #61?

4. Why does Christmas feel that something powerful is taking over his body and something irreversible is about to happen?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 341 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample