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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 think Joe Christmas has committed the murder of Miss Burden?
(a) Because he never has been any good
(b) Because he is an itinerant
(c) Because he has murderous eyes
(d) Because he has Negro blood

2. Who tries to prevent the answer to #46 from entering the house to check for survivors?
(a) A drunken man
(b) A sheriff's deputy
(c) A neighbor
(d) A policeman

3. How much time does Byron spend at the mill?
(a) Whatever he feels like
(b) Six days a week
(c) Part-time hours
(d) 40 hours

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

5. What does the old woman instinctively know about Christmas without even seeing him?
(a) That he will be hanged for his crime
(b) That he is their grandson
(c) That he is not capable of murder
(d) That he is a murderer

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the townspeople leave the old couple alone?

2. Where does Hightower now spend all his time?

3. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?

4. A negro awakens the sheriff at his home to tell him that a white man has terrorized some black people ____________.

5. Who befriends Hightower after twenty years of his seclusion?

(see the answer key)

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