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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Christmas and Brown live?
(a) In the cabin on Miss Burden's property
(b) In a studio apartment
(c) In a rented house
(d) In a hotel

2. What does Christmas sell in order to buy a new suit?
(a) Some old coins
(b) His stamp collection
(c) A heifer
(d) Some antique farm equipment

3. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?
(a) In a bar
(b) In seclusion at his home
(c) At the library
(d) Fishing

4. Why does Byron think that he and Hightower continue to lead such solitary lives?
(a) Because they have anti-social personalities
(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 do not like team events.

5. What is the intention of the four boys?
(a) They want to get drunk.
(b) They are going to have sex with a Negro girl waiting inside the sawmill.
(c) They want to smoke some dope inside the sawmill.
(d) They want to meet some wild girls from out of town.

Short Answer Questions

1. Byron tells Hightower that a ______________ discovered the fire at the Burden place yesterday morning.

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

3. What do the other mill workers discover that Joe Christmas has been doing?

4. What item in the dietician's bathroom at the orphanage fascinates the five-year-old Christmas?

5. At whose home does Lena spend the night?

(see the answer key)

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