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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Mr. McEachern then go to church?
(a) To expiate his sins
(b) To ask God for help in raising Christmas
(c) To ask God to rid him of the burden of Christmas.
(d) To set up the hymnals for the next day's services

3. What topic about girls do Christmas' friends tell him about which he finds very repugnant?
(a) PMS
(b) Cliques
(c) Menstruation
(d) Going steady

4. What item in the dietician's bathroom at the orphanage fascinates the five-year-old Christmas?
(a) Makeup
(b) Pink toothpaste
(c) Talcum powder
(d) Perfume

5. What does Bobbie do that lets Christmas know that she does not want to marry him?
(a) She slams a door in his face.
(b) She throws away his money and screams at him.
(c) She tells him that she enjoys being a whore.
(d) She refuses to pack her clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christmas sell in order to buy a new suit?

2. What does Mr. McEachern see from his bedroom window one night?

3. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the north as it is in the south?

4. What does Christmas do when he realizes that the waitress sleeps with other men for money?

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

(see the answer key)

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