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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This chapter goes back in time to provide the reader with information about events. This technique is called _________________.
(a) timeline redux
(b) flashback
(c) plot reversal
(d) chronological manipulation

2. 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

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

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

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 does people's taxes.
(c) He is a writer.
(d) He has a landscaping business.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. McEachern make Christmas do later in the day after the punishment?

2. Who has been living in the cabin on the Burden property?

3. How many days pass before Christmas is returned to the orphanage?

4. What do Christmas and Brown call work at the mill after they quit?

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

(see the answer key)

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