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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Lena's brother?
(a) Michael
(b) McKenzie
(c) Matthew
(d) McKinley

2. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?
(a) Because they do not like team events.
(b) Because they have had disastrous experiences with women before.
(c) Because man is more afraid of change than of the troubles he already has experienced and those familiar to him.
(d) Because they have anti-social personalities

3. Who befriends Hightower after twenty years of his seclusion?
(a) Miss Atkins
(b) Lena Grove
(c) Joe Christmas
(d) Byron Bunch

4. Why does Christmas decide to sleep in the stables instead of the cabin?
(a) Because he wants to smell the horses which are masculine
(b) Because he has a new horse and wants to stay close to him
(c) Because his horse is about to give birth
(d) Because it is too hot in the cabin

5. What does Hightower do to supplement his monthly inheritance since he lost his position at the church twenty-five years ago?
(a) He provides artistic services.
(b) He is a writer.
(c) He has a landscaping business.
(d) He does people's taxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lena asks Byron if Joe Brown has a _________ by his mouth.

2. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?

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

4. What does Christmas do after he awakens?

5. Why does Byron not tell Lena that Joe Brown is actually Lucas Burch?

(see the answer key)

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