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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To where does Miss Burden make arrangements for Christmas to go?
(a) A negro college
(b) Back to Chicago
(c) Auto mechanic school
(d) Florida for a vacation

2. Why does Lena move into the cabin?
(a) She is tired and needs a place to rest.
(b) She thinks it is Lucas Burch's house.
(c) She does not want to return home.
(d) Her baby is due soon and she wants to give her child a home.

3. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?
(a) Because he liked small towns
(b) Because he had an old college friend living there
(c) Because his grandfather had been killed there during the Civil War
(d) Because it had a nice rectory

4. Why will Lena not accept Byron's marriage proposal?
(a) Because she has not seen Joe Brown/Lucas Burch yet
(b) Because Byron is sexually unattractive to her
(c) Because Byron does not make enough money to support her
(d) Because Byron is of a different religious belief

5. When Hightower does not leave, who threatens him by beating him unconscious in the woods near his home?
(a) The Ku Klux Klan
(b) A group of thugs
(c) The Mafia
(d) The church elders

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hightower ask Lena to do when he returns to the cabin later that day?

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

3. How did Mrs. Hightower die?

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

5. What does Brown give to the Negro boy in the woods?

(see the answer key)

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