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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Bobbie?
(a) Bobbie is the choir leader at church.
(b) Bobbie is Mrs. McEachern's sister.
(c) Bobbie is the name Christmas gives his new heifer.
(d) Bobbie is a waitress Christmas meets at a rundown restaurant.

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 pay them for the ride
(c) So she can find Lucas
(d) So she can rest awhile

3. Why had Hightower originally come to town?
(a) To be the minister of the Presbyterian Church
(b) To teach Sunday School
(c) To be the priest at the Catholic Church
(d) To lead the church choir

4. Who is the only one who knows that Byron drives all night on Saturdays in order to conduct the choir at a distant country church and then drive home in time to go to work on Mondays?
(a) Christmas
(b) Former minister Hightower
(c) Brown
(d) Lucas Burch

5. What does Christmas do when the horse he is riding back to town runs out of energy?
(a) He walks the horse back to the barn.
(b) He abandons the horse and runs to town.
(c) He trots the horse into town.
(d) He rests while the horse rests.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?

2. Who does McKinley think is the father of Lena's baby?

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

4. To where does Miss Burden make arrangements for Christmas to go?

5. Where did Mrs. Hightower go on Saturday nights?

(see the answer key)

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