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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Miss Burden when she discovers him stealing food from her house?
(a) Twenty-five years old
(b) Fifty-three years old
(c) Thirty-years old
(d) Forty-one years old

2. Where did Mrs. Hightower go on Saturday nights?
(a) Choir practice
(b) Out to dinner
(c) Shopping
(d) Memphis

3. Why does Christmas feel that something powerful is taking over his body and something irreversible is about to happen?
(a) Because he is on a new medication
(b) Because he has a violent temper
(c) Because Miss Burden had been praying over him
(d) Because he is drunk

4. What does Mr. McEachern see from his bedroom window one night?
(a) The scarecrow in the vegetable garden
(b) Mrs. McEachern walking in the moonlight.
(c) The shadow of Christmas running by to get into an arriving car
(d) Two tramps scavenging for food

5. What does Hightower do to supplement his monthly inheritance since he lost his position at the church twenty-five years ago?
(a) He is a writer.
(b) He has a landscaping business.
(c) He provides artistic services.
(d) He does people's taxes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Christmas finds that Miss Burden's behavior is like that of a what?

2. Why does Byron not tell Lena that Joe Brown is actually Lucas Burch?

3. What does the dietician offer Christmas as a bribe?

4. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?

5. Who is Lena's brother?

(see the answer key)

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