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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why was Hightower fired from his ministry position?
(a) Because he lacked the proper credentials
(b) Because of the scandal caused by his wife
(c) Because he was not technically savvy
(d) Because he took too many vacations

3. What happens one day when Christmas is taking some of the answer to #61?
(a) The dietician and her lover enter her room for an amorous encounter.
(b) Christmas breaks a valuable keepsake.
(c) Christmas soils his clothes.
(d) Christmas falls asleep.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has been living in the cabin on the Burden property?

2. Who makes plans to adopt Christmas and take him away from the orphanage?

3. What is Joe Christmas' biggest secret?

4. What does the dietician tell the janitor about Christmas

5. This chapter goes back in time to provide the reader with information about events. This technique is called _________________.

(see the answer key)

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