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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 returns to the spring?
(a) He takes another nap.
(b) He picks some berries for a treat.
(c) He eats breakfast and reads his magazine cover-to-cover.
(d) He writes in his diary.

2. What is the intention of the four boys?
(a) They want to meet some wild girls from out of town.
(b) They are going to have sex with a Negro girl waiting inside the sawmill.
(c) They want to get drunk.
(d) They want to smoke some dope inside the sawmill.

3. Byron takes Lena to a _______________ so she can spend the night.
(a) bed and breakfast
(b) boardinghouse
(c) hostel
(d) hotel

4. The story transitions from an eight-year-old Christmas to Christmas at ___________________.
(a) twenty-years-old
(b) fourteen-years-old
(c) ten-years-old
(d) eighteen-years-old

5. What do the other mill workers discover that Joe Christmas has been doing?
(a) Volunteering at the hospital
(b) Working the night shift
(c) Driving a cab
(d) Selling whiskey illegally

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does the dietician call Christmas?

2. How much is the reward for the apprehension of Miss Burden's murderer?

3. What does Christmas do on the side without telling Miss Burden?

4. How does Mr. McEachern punish Christmas in the stable

5. What topic about girls do Christmas' friends tell him about which he finds very repugnant?

(see the answer key)

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