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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. McEachern want Christmas to do?
(a) Become a better fisherman
(b) Memorize his catechism studies
(c) Learn how to farm
(d) Chop more wood for the house

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

3. Why had Hightower originally come to town?
(a) To lead the church choir
(b) To be the priest at the Catholic Church
(c) To teach Sunday School
(d) To be the minister of the Presbyterian Church

4. What does Christmas do when he asks the waitress out and she wants to return home because she has her monthly period?
(a) He tells her that they can make a date for another night.
(b) He never talks to her again.
(c) He hits her, runs away to the woods and vomits.
(d) He ignores her.

5. What does Christmas do with the waitress?
(a) They go out drinking in another town.
(b) They go to the movies.
(c) They meet two nights a week to have sex.
(d) They sing in the church choir.

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. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?

3. Why do the townspeople think Joe Christmas has committed the murder of Miss Burden?

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

5. When Hightower does not leave, who threatens him by beating him unconscious in the woods near his home?

(see the answer key)

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