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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens one day when Christmas is taking some of the answer to #61?
(a) Christmas soils his clothes.
(b) The dietician and her lover enter her room for an amorous encounter.
(c) Christmas falls asleep.
(d) Christmas breaks a valuable keepsake.

2. How does Mr. McEachern punish Christmas in the stable
(a) He makes him clean out the stalls.
(b) He berates him verbally.
(c) He whips him with a heavy strap multiple times.
(d) He makes him do heavy lifting.

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

4. Lena asks Byron if Joe Brown has a _________ by his mouth.
(a) cut
(b) scar
(c) mole
(d) rash

5. Why does Mr. McEachern then go to church?
(a) To ask God to rid him of the burden of Christmas.
(b) To set up the hymnals for the next day's services
(c) To ask God for help in raising Christmas
(d) To expiate his sins

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Christmas feel that something powerful is taking over his body and something irreversible is about to happen?

2. What does Byron Bunch tell Hightower he is going to do with the cabin on Miss Burden's property?

3. What does the old woman instinctively know about Christmas without even seeing him?

4. What does Christmas do when he returns to the spring?

5. What is Lena's hometown?

(see the answer key)

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