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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the townspeople virtually ignore Miss Burden?
(a) Because she never married
(b) Because she is more intelligent than any of them
(c) Because she is too eccentric
(d) Because she associates with Negroes

2. How do the townspeople know that Mrs. Hightower is on the verge of a breakdown?
(a) She refuses to go to choir practice.
(b) She has no interest in fundraising drives.
(c) She interrupts her husband's Sunday sermon by standing in the church aisle shrieking at him.
(d) She refuses to join in Bible study groups.

3. What are the townspeople eager for over Miss Burden's death?
(a) a conviction
(b) the process of justice
(c) a suspect
(d) vengeance

4. What is the intention of the four boys?
(a) They want to smoke some dope inside the sawmill.
(b) They want to get drunk.
(c) They want to meet some wild girls from out of town.
(d) They are going to have sex with a Negro girl waiting inside the sawmill.

5. What does Christmas announce to everyone present?
(a) That he did not mean to hurt his stepfather.
(b) That Bobbie is not a harlot.
(c) That he had told McEachern that he would kill him one day.
(d) That he and Bobbie are running away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Christmas leaves the cabin taking with him _________________________.

2. What does Mr. McEachern want Christmas to do?

3. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?

4. At whose home does Lena spend the night?

5. What does Bobbie do that lets Christmas know that she does not want to marry him?

(see the answer key)

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