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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 her head has been almost severed from her body
(b) That she has been burned almost beyond recognition
(c) That she is still alive
(d) That she is incoherent

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

3. Who has been living in the cabin on the Burden property?
(a) Lena and Joe Brown
(b) Lena and Joe Christmas
(c) Joe Christmas and Joe Brown
(d) Lena and Lucas Burch

4. 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 provides artistic services.
(c) He is a writer.
(d) He does people's taxes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?

2. What does Christmas do when he returns to the spring?

3. In the morning, Christmas returns to the cabin and dresses in _____________________.

4. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?

5. What does Christmas do as he stands underneath Miss Burden's bedroom window?

(see the answer key)

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