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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much time does Byron spend at the mill?
(a) Whatever he feels like
(b) Part-time hours
(c) 40 hours
(d) Six days a week

3. 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?
(a) Former minister Hightower
(b) Christmas
(c) Brown
(d) Lucas Burch

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

5. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?
(a) Because she does not like anybody there.
(b) Because it will soon be a ghost town.
(c) Because she lost her job.
(d) Because she was evicted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had Hightower originally come to town?

2. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?

3. What does Lena carry to prevent them from getting dirty?

4. Why do the two men in the wagon, Armstid and Winterbottom, give Lena a ride?

5. Who does McKinley think is the father of Lena's baby?

(see the answer key)

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