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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?
(a) Because it is none of her business
(b) Because she approves of the whiskey sales
(c) Because she is an abolitionist
(d) Because Byron does not like Miss Burden

3. What is Joe Christmas' biggest secret?
(a) He is part Negro.
(b) He is a thief.
(c) He is a bastard.
(d) He is a fugitive.

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

5. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?
(a) Joe Louis
(b) Joe Christmas
(c) Joe Kennedy
(d) Joe Miller

Short Answer Questions

1. Christmas walks into the woods and reaches a point by a small stream where he ___________________.

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

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

4. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?

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

(see the answer key)

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