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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 Mr. McEachern see from his bedroom window one night?
(a) The shadow of Christmas running by to get into an arriving car
(b) Mrs. McEachern walking in the moonlight.
(c) Two tramps scavenging for food
(d) The scarecrow in the vegetable garden

2. Why do the two men in the wagon, Armstid and Winterbottom, give Lena a ride?
(a) So she can give them directions
(b) So she can rest awhile
(c) So she can find Lucas
(d) So she can pay them for the ride

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

4. Who makes plans to adopt Christmas and take him away from the orphanage?
(a) Mr. and Mrs. McEachern
(b) Miss Burden
(c) Rev. Hightower
(d) The janitor

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?

2. What name does the dietician call Christmas?

3. What does Christmas trade a black woman for when he is on the run?

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

5. Who did Lena live with in Doane's Mill?

(see the answer key)

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