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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the old man holler out while waiting on the train to Jefferson?
(a) Hellfire and brimstone!
(b) Hell won't have this mess!
(c) Saints be praised!
(d) Bitchery and abomination!

3. How does the relationship between Christmas and Miss Burden evolve?
(a) They become best friends.
(b) They become lovers.
(c) He becomes the manager of her farm.
(d) The friendship cools off after a year.

4. Why is Christmas shocked when he arrives at Bobbie's?
(a) Bobbie is not there.
(b) He did not know Bobbie would have so many suitcases.
(c) Bobbie is not packed yet.
(d) He finds her employers and two other men in her room.

5. How does Christmas escape the McEachern house one night?
(a) He leaves when the McEacherns are at church.
(b) He hitches a ride to the nearby bus station.
(c) He shimmies down a rope hanging from his bedroom window.
(d) He pretends to go to school but runs away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Byron need Hightower to get involved with Christmas' plight?

2. Who is the other man who shows up unexpectedly at the mill for a job?

3. What do the townspeople want to do with Christmas?

4. Where do Christmas and Brown live?

5. When Christmas' position in the room is revealed, the dietician accuses him of __________.

(see the answer key)

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