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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hightower understand when he hears the choir's songs emanating from his old church?
(a) That the songs are chosen for specific reasons
(b) That the organ desperately needs tuning
(c) That he does not like the new songs he hears
(d) That the townspeople plan on crucifying Christmas

2. Who is the other man who shows up unexpectedly at the mill for a job?
(a) White
(b) Brown
(c) Black
(d) Miller

3. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the north as it is in the south?
(a) He can sit wherever he wants to in northern restaurants.
(b) He gets his first apartment in the north.
(c) It is easier for him to get a job in the north.
(d) A prositute still wants her money even after he tells her he has Negro blood.

4. What happens as Christmas comes to in Bobbie's room?
(a) He hears Bobbie and the others prepare to depart.
(b) He wonders what happened to McEachern.
(c) He counts his money.
(d) He thinks he is dead.

5. How did Mrs. Hightower die?
(a) She either fell or jumped from a Memphis hotel room.
(b) She took an overdose of sleeping pills.
(c) She had a heart attack.
(d) She was in a car accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Hines reveal to Hightower?

2. What do Christmas and Brown call work at the mill after they quit?

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

4. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?

5. Why does Lena move into the cabin?

(see the answer key)

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