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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the other mill workers discover that Joe Christmas has been doing?
(a) Selling whiskey illegally
(b) Volunteering at the hospital
(c) Working the night shift
(d) Driving a cab

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

3. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?
(a) Joe Miller
(b) Joe Louis
(c) Joe Christmas
(d) Joe Kennedy

4. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?
(a) Because they have anti-social personalities
(b) Because they do not like team events.
(c) Because they have had disastrous experiences with women before.
(d) Because man is more afraid of change than of the troubles he already has experienced and those familiar to him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lena asks Byron if Joe Brown has a _________ by his mouth.

2. Why was Hightower fired from his ministry position?

3. Where do Christmas and Brown live?

4. 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?

5. Who does Byron fall in love with at first sight?

(see the answer key)

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