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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Byron tells Hightower that a ______________ discovered the fire at the Burden place yesterday morning.
(a) countryman
(b) doctor
(c) traveling salesman
(d) lawyer

2. Why do the townspeople think Joe Christmas has committed the murder of Miss Burden?
(a) Because he is an itinerant
(b) Because he has murderous eyes
(c) Because he never has been any good
(d) Because he has Negro blood

3. Why does Christmas feel that something powerful is taking over his body and something irreversible is about to happen?
(a) Because Miss Burden had been praying over him
(b) Because he has a violent temper
(c) Because he is drunk
(d) Because he is on a new medication

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

5. Who is the other man who shows up unexpectedly at the mill for a job?
(a) White
(b) Black
(c) Brown
(d) Miller

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the dietician offer Christmas as a bribe?

2. Christmas leaves the cabin taking with him _________________________.

3. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?

4. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?

5. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?

(see the answer key)

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