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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Christmas quit his job at the mill?
(a) He is bored with the work at the mill.
(b) He got a better offer from another mill.
(c) He and Brown are partners in the whiskey business.
(d) He is leaving town.

2. What do the townspeople do after Mrs. Hightower's death?
(a) They send him to a sanitorium,
(b) They tell him to get his act together.
(c) They force Hightower to resign, lock him out of the church and give him momey to relocate.
(d) They send him on a much-needed vacation.

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

4. What does Christmas do when he earns some more money?
(a) He goes to a movie.
(b) He returns to the restaurant and pays the waitress the balance of what he owed for his pie and coffee.
(c) He buys some girlie magazines.
(d) He takes his friends out drinking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Byron tell Hightower has happened at the Burden house?

2. Why does Christmas decide to sleep in the stables instead of the cabin?

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

4. Why do the two men in the wagon, Armstid and Winterbottom, give Lena a ride?

5. Who does the dietician approach to exact her revenge on Christmas?

(see the answer key)

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