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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Lena go the next morning?
(a) She hitches a ride back home.
(b) She takes a train to Atlanta.
(c) She tries to get a job at the general store.
(d) She gets a wagon ride to Jefferson.

2. What happens to Lena after she sneaks out of McKinley's house one night?
(a) She goes roller skating.
(b) She goes to a dance.
(c) She studies with a friend.
(d) She gets pregnant.

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

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

5. Why do the townspeople think Joe Christmas has committed the murder of Miss Burden?
(a) Because he has murderous eyes
(b) Because he is an itinerant
(c) Because he never has been any good
(d) Because he has Negro blood

Short Answer Questions

1. What topic about girls do Christmas' friends tell him about which he finds very repugnant?

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

3. When Christmas' position in the room is revealed, the dietician accuses him of __________.

4. At whose home does Lena spend the night?

5. Who is Christmas meeting on this night?

(see the answer key)

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