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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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