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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. McEachern punish Christmas in the stable
(a) He makes him do heavy lifting.
(b) He makes him clean out the stalls.
(c) He whips him with a heavy strap multiple times.
(d) He berates him verbally.

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

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

4. What does Christmas take from the McEachern house?
(a) All the money that Mrs. McEachern has hidden
(b) His Bible
(c) Food for a long trip
(d) Enough clean clothes for a long weekend

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Lena after she sneaks out of McKinley's house one night?

2. Why is Lena walking down the dusty road?

3. What does Christmas do instead of having sex with the girl when it is his turn?

4. Who is the man that Byron Bunch recalls as coming to work at the planing mill three years ago?

5. Who is Lena's brother?

(see the answer key)

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