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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the answer to #46 discover when he finds Miss Burden?
(a) That she is incoherent
(b) That she is still alive
(c) That she has been burned almost beyond recognition
(d) That her head has been almost severed from her body

2. Where did Mrs. Hightower go on Saturday nights?
(a) Shopping
(b) Choir practice
(c) Out to dinner
(d) Memphis

3. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?
(a) She refuses to join in Bible study groups.
(b) She interrupts her husband's Sunday sermon by standing in the church aisle shrieking at him.
(c) She refuses to go to choir practice.
(d) She has no interest in fundraising drives.

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

5. Where do Christmas and Brown live?
(a) In the cabin on Miss Burden's property
(b) In a studio apartment
(c) In a hotel
(d) In a rented house

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the six metal tins which Christmas digs up in a nearby ditch?

2. Why does Christmas feel that something powerful is taking over his body and something irreversible is about to happen?

3. Why do the townspeople think Joe Christmas has committed the murder of Miss Burden?

4. Christmas leaves the cabin taking with him _________________________.

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

(see the answer key)

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