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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tries to prevent the answer to #46 from entering the house to check for survivors?
(a) A drunken man
(b) A policeman
(c) A sheriff's deputy
(d) A neighbor

2. What happens one day when Christmas is taking some of the answer to #61?
(a) The dietician and her lover enter her room for an amorous encounter.
(b) Christmas breaks a valuable keepsake.
(c) Christmas soils his clothes.
(d) Christmas falls asleep.

3. The story transitions from an eight-year-old Christmas to Christmas at ___________________.
(a) ten-years-old
(b) eighteen-years-old
(c) fourteen-years-old
(d) twenty-years-old

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

5. Mr. McEachern tells Christmas that the name "Christmas" is _________ and the boy will be called McEachern.
(a) Christian
(b) heathen
(c) too holiday-sounding
(d) too seasonal

Short Answer Questions

1. As Byron escorts Lena through the crowd in town talking about the fire, what does he not want Lena to hear?

2. Where did Mrs. Hightower go on Saturday nights?

3. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?

4. In the morning, Christmas returns to the cabin and dresses in _____________________.

5. What does the answer to #46 discover when he finds Miss Burden?

(see the answer key)

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