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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 Byron tell Hightower about Lena?
(a) That he told her that she should go back home.
(b) That he told Lena that Joe Brown is the Lucas Burch she seeks.
(c) That he told her that she is just looking for trouble by looking for Lucas Burch.
(d) That he told her that there is no one in town that fits the description of Lucas Burch.

2. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?
(a) Joe Christmas
(b) Joe Louis
(c) Joe Miller
(d) Joe Kennedy

3. Who does the dietician approach to exact her revenge on Christmas?
(a) the principal
(b) the school nurse
(c) the math teacher
(d) the janitor

4. Why is Christmas shocked when he arrives at Bobbie's?
(a) He finds her employers and two other men in her room.
(b) Bobbie is not there.
(c) Bobbie is not packed yet.
(d) He did not know Bobbie would have so many suitcases.

5. What do the men do to Christmas?
(a) They beat him senseless.
(b) They let him leave without incident.
(c) They promise not to inform on him.
(d) They give him a head start.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christmas do when he earns some more money?

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

3. Why does Joe Christmas refrain from beating Joe Brown when he could have easily killed him the night in the cabin?

4. What do the other mill workers discover that Joe Christmas has been doing?

5. What does Hightower do to supplement his monthly inheritance since he lost his position at the church twenty-five years ago?

(see the answer key)

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