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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Christmas do with the alcohol in the tins?
(a) He pours it onto the ground.
(b) He drinks half and saves the rest.
(c) He drinks half and pours the rest on the ground.
(d) He drinks it all.

2. What do Christmas and Brown call work at the mill after they quit?
(a) "too damn hard"
(b) "nigger's work"
(c) "a real back breaker"
(d) "boring"

3. What does Christmas do after he awakens?
(a) He writes some letters that he has been been delaying.
(b) He goes to a small store nearby to buy food for breakfast.
(c) He cooks the fish he has caught.
(d) He decides to just spend the day daydreaming at the stream.

4. Who befriends Hightower after twenty years of his seclusion?
(a) Byron Bunch
(b) Miss Atkins
(c) Joe Christmas
(d) Lena Grove

5. Who tries to prevent the answer to #46 from entering the house to check for survivors?
(a) A neighbor
(b) A policeman
(c) A drunken man
(d) A sheriff's deputy

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Christmas do when he returns to the spring?

4. What does the answer to #46 discover when he finds Miss Burden?

5. What is Joe Christmas' biggest secret?

(see the answer key)

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