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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Mr. McEachern calls Bobbie a harlot?
(a) Christmas takes Bobbie away from the situation.
(b) Mr. McEachern apologizes to Bobbie.
(c) Christmas apologizes to Bobbie.
(d) Christmas breaks a chair over his head.

2. Christmas finds that Miss Burden's behavior is like that of a what?
(a) preacher's wife
(b) nymphomaniac
(c) whore
(d) virgin

3. What does Christmas do when he leaves the house?
(a) He runs and runs for fifteen years.
(b) He asks his stepmother for more money.
(c) He goes to the sheriff's office to confess to killing McEachern.
(d) He goes back home to ask for forgiveness.

4. When Hightower does not leave, who threatens him by beating him unconscious in the woods near his home?
(a) The Mafia
(b) A group of thugs
(c) The Ku Klux Klan
(d) The church elders

5. What does Joe Brown do after the murder?
(a) He shows up in town, idenitifies Christmas as the murderer and claims the reward.
(b) He tries to get word to Christmas that the sheriff is looking for him.
(c) He admits to killing Miss Burden.
(d) He runs away from town as fast as he can.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Hightower fired from his ministry position?

2. What do the men do to Christmas?

3. What does the deputy tell the sheriff about Lena?

4. Who tries to prevent the answer to #46 from entering the house to check for survivors?

5. The story transitions from an eight-year-old Christmas to Christmas at ___________________.

(see the answer key)

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