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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 Lena carry to prevent them from getting dirty?
(a) Her gloves
(b) Her shoes
(c) Her boots
(d) Her raincoat

2. Why was Hightower fired from his ministry position?
(a) Because he was not technically savvy
(b) Because of the scandal caused by his wife
(c) Because he lacked the proper credentials
(d) Because he took too many vacations

3. 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 they have anti-social personalities
(c) Because they do not like team events.
(d) Because man is more afraid of change than of the troubles he already has experienced and those familiar to him.

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) Former minister Hightower
(c) Lucas Burch
(d) Christmas

5. Why do the townspeople think Joe Christmas has committed the murder of Miss Burden?
(a) Because he never has been any good
(b) Because he has murderous eyes
(c) Because he is an itinerant
(d) Because he has Negro blood

Short Answer Questions

1. This chapter goes back in time to provide the reader with information about events. This technique is called _________________.

2. As Byron escorts Lena through the crowd in town talking about the fire, what does he not want Lena to hear?

3. Who has been living in the cabin on the Burden property?

4. What is Joe Christmas' biggest secret?

5. What do Christmas and Brown call work at the mill after they quit?

(see the answer key)

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