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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the demeanor of the answer to #13?
(a) Easygoing and happy
(b) Intelligent and serious
(c) Proud and contemptuous
(d) The life of the party

2. Who is Bobbie?
(a) Bobbie is the choir leader at church.
(b) Bobbie is a waitress Christmas meets at a rundown restaurant.
(c) Bobbie is the name Christmas gives his new heifer.
(d) Bobbie is Mrs. McEachern's sister.

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

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

5. Why does Byron not tell Lena that Joe Brown is actually Lucas Burch?
(a) Because he wants her to like him.
(b) Because he wants Lena to stop poking around in things that are not her business.
(c) Because he does not want her making a fool of herself in front of the whole town.
(d) Because he wants Lena to return home.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Byron tell Hightower about Lena?

3. Why is Lena walking down the dusty road?

4. What does Christmas do when he realizes that the waitress sleeps with other men for money?

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

(see the answer key)

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