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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Christmas quit his job at the mill?
(a) He and Brown are partners in the whiskey business.
(b) He is leaving town.
(c) He got a better offer from another mill.
(d) He is bored with the work at the mill.

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

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

4. What do the townspeople do after Mrs. Hightower's death?
(a) They force Hightower to resign, lock him out of the church and give him momey to relocate.
(b) They tell him to get his act together.
(c) They send him on a much-needed vacation.
(d) They send him to a sanitorium,

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lena go the next morning?

2. Who is the only one who knows that Byron drives all night on Saturdays in order to conduct the choir at a distant country church and then drive home in time to go to work on Mondays?

3. Why had Hightower originally come to town?

4. Why is Lena walking down the dusty road?

5. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?

(see the answer key)

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