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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Lena walking down the dusty road?
(a) She is taking a short cut.
(b) She is looking for the father of her child.
(c) She likes to take walks.
(d) She is lost.

2. What happens to Lena after she sneaks out of McKinley's house one night?
(a) She gets pregnant.
(b) She studies with a friend.
(c) She goes roller skating.
(d) She goes to a dance.

3. What do Christmas and Brown call work at the mill after they quit?
(a) "boring"
(b) "a real back breaker"
(c) "too damn hard"
(d) "nigger's work"

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?

3. How much time does Byron spend at the mill?

4. Why had Hightower originally come to town?

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

(see the answer key)

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