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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To where does Miss Burden make arrangements for Christmas to go?
(a) Auto mechanic school
(b) A negro college
(c) Back to Chicago
(d) Florida for a vacation

2. Why does Lena move into the cabin?
(a) She does not want to return home.
(b) Her baby is due soon and she wants to give her child a home.
(c) She thinks it is Lucas Burch's house.
(d) She is tired and needs a place to rest.

3. Why do the two men in the wagon, Armstid and Winterbottom, give Lena a ride?
(a) So she can find Lucas
(b) So she can give them directions
(c) So she can rest awhile
(d) So she can pay them for the ride

4. The story transitions from an eight-year-old Christmas to Christmas at ___________________.
(a) fourteen-years-old
(b) twenty-years-old
(c) ten-years-old
(d) eighteen-years-old

5. What does Miss Burden leave out for Christmas every Saturday?
(a) A meal in the kitchen
(b) A to-do list
(c) A paycheck
(d) A Bible lesson

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Christmas headed with his three friends?

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

4. What does Mrs. McEachern bring Christmas after Mr. McEachern leaves?

5. What happens to Lena after she sneaks out of McKinley's house one night?

(see the answer key)

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