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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. At whose home does Lena spend the night?
(a) At the Holiday Inn
(b) At a rooming house
(c) At a bed and breakfast inn
(d) Armstid and his wife, Martha's house

3. Christmas leaves the cabin taking with him _________________________.
(a) some letters he has to mail
(b) a girlie/gun magazine, razor, shaving brush and shaving soap
(c) all the spare cash he can find
(d) a list of errands he has to accomplish today

4. What is Lena's hometown?
(a) Doane's Mill, Alabama
(b) Montgomery, Alabama
(c) Mobile, Alabama
(d) Memphis, Tennessee

5. Christmas walks into the woods and reaches a point by a small stream where he ___________________.
(a) goes swimming
(b) whittles for awhile
(c) goes fishing
(d) builds a fire and takes a nap

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christmas take from Mrs. McEachern's secret hiding place?

2. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?

3. How does Christmas escape the McEachern house one night?

4. Why is Lena walking down the dusty road?

5. What does Mrs. McEachern bring Christmas after Mr. McEachern leaves?

(see the answer key)

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