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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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 decides to just spend the day daydreaming at the stream.
(d) He cooks the fish he has caught.

4. 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 has a new horse and wants to stay close to him
(c) Because he wants to smell the horses which are masculine
(d) Because his horse is about to give birth

5. What happens after Byron approaches Brown near the railroad tracks?
(a) The two men struggle and Byron falls onto the train tracks.
(b) Byron pays Brown to leave town.
(c) Brown agrees to return to town and marry Lena.
(d) The two men struggle and Brown leaps onto a passing train.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Christmas get a job?

2. Whose services does Christmas use many times over the years?

3. When Hightower does not leave, who threatens him by beating him unconscious in the woods near his home?

4. When Christmas' position in the room is revealed, the dietician accuses him of __________.

5. Byron takes Lena to a _______________ so she can spend the night.

(see the answer key)

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