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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Lena's hometown?
(a) Montgomery, Alabama
(b) Mobile, Alabama
(c) Memphis, Tennessee
(d) Doane's Mill, Alabama

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At whose home does Lena spend the night?

2. Who is the other man who shows up unexpectedly at the mill for a job?

3. Who befriends Hightower after twenty years of his seclusion?

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

5. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?

(see the answer key)

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