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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) Working the night shift
(b) Driving a cab
(c) Selling whiskey illegally
(d) Volunteering at the hospital

2. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?
(a) Because she approves of the whiskey sales
(b) Because she is an abolitionist
(c) Because it is none of her business
(d) Because Byron does not like Miss Burden

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

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

5. Who does Byron fall in love with at first sight?
(a) The choir director
(b) Miss Burden
(c) Lena
(d) The bank teller

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had Hightower originally come to town?

2. Why is Lena walking down the dusty road?

3. What do the townspeople do after Mrs. Hightower's death?

4. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?

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

(see the answer key)

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