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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?
(a) She refuses to go to choir practice.
(b) She refuses to join in Bible study groups.
(c) She interrupts her husband's Sunday sermon by standing in the church aisle shrieking at him.
(d) She has no interest in fundraising drives.

2. What does Christmas take from Mrs. McEachern's secret hiding place?
(a) A deed
(b) A diary
(c) Letters
(d) Money

3. What is Joe Christmas' biggest secret?
(a) He is a fugitive.
(b) He is a bastard.
(c) He is a thief.
(d) He is part Negro.

4. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?
(a) Because it had a nice rectory
(b) Because his grandfather had been killed there during the Civil War
(c) Because he liked small towns
(d) Because he had an old college friend living there

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christmas do when he leaves the house?

2. What does Christmas announce to everyone present?

3. Where does Mr. McEachern find Christmas and Bobbie that night?

4. Where does the janitor take Christmas?

5. Who befriends Hightower after twenty years of his seclusion?

(see the answer key)

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