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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?
(a) She interrupts her husband's Sunday sermon by standing in the church aisle shrieking at him.
(b) She refuses to go to choir practice.
(c) She refuses to join in Bible study groups.
(d) She has no interest in fundraising drives.

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

3. Mr. McEachern tells Christmas that the name "Christmas" is _________ and the boy will be called McEachern.
(a) too holiday-sounding
(b) Christian
(c) heathen
(d) too seasonal

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

5. What does Christmas do when he returns to the spring?
(a) He writes in his diary.
(b) He picks some berries for a treat.
(c) He eats breakfast and reads his magazine cover-to-cover.
(d) He takes another nap.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the demeanor of the answer to #13?

2. Why does Christmas decide to sleep in the stables instead of the cabin?

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

4. Who befriends Hightower after twenty years of his seclusion?

5. Lena asks Byron if Joe Brown has a _________ by his mouth.

(see the answer key)

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