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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Christmas leaves the cabin taking with him _________________________.
(a) some letters he has to mail
(b) all the spare cash he can find
(c) a list of errands he has to accomplish today
(d) a girlie/gun magazine, razor, shaving brush and shaving soap

2. A negro awakens the sheriff at his home to tell him that a white man has terrorized some black people ____________.
(a) at church
(b) at a restaurant
(c) at the sawmill
(d) at a bus station

3. What does Hightower do to supplement his monthly inheritance since he lost his position at the church twenty-five years ago?
(a) He is a writer.
(b) He does people's taxes.
(c) He provides artistic services.
(d) He has a landscaping business.

4. Why does Byron not tell Miss Burden about Christmas and Brown's illegal whiskey business?
(a) Because she approves of the whiskey sales
(b) Because it is none of her business
(c) Because she is an abolitionist
(d) Because Byron does not like Miss Burden

5. What does Christmas come to understand about women?
(a) They are all very moody at times.
(b) When they finally surrender completely, it is going to be in words.
(c) They are basically the same no matter what their age.
(d) Some are always going to be good and some are always going to be bad for you.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mrs. Hightower die?

2. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?

3. How does Christmas realize that racial prejudice is not as strong in the north as it is in the south?

4. What is the demeanor of the answer to #13?

5. Why does Christmas quit his job at the mill?

(see the answer key)

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