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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hightower do to supplement his monthly inheritance since he lost his position at the church twenty-five years ago?
(a) He has a landscaping business.
(b) He does people's taxes.
(c) He is a writer.
(d) He provides artistic services.

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

3. Why had Hightower originally come to town?
(a) To teach Sunday School
(b) To be the minister of the Presbyterian Church
(c) To be the priest at the Catholic Church
(d) To lead the church choir

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

5. When Hightower does not leave, who threatens him by beating him unconscious in the woods near his home?
(a) The church elders
(b) The Ku Klux Klan
(c) A group of thugs
(d) The Mafia

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Lena after she sneaks out of McKinley's house one night?

2. Why was Hightower fired from his ministry position?

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

4. Where does Lena go the next morning?

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

(see the answer key)

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