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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the only one who knows that Byron drives all night on Saturdays in order to conduct the choir at a distant country church and then drive home in time to go to work on Mondays?
(a) Brown
(b) Former minister Hightower
(c) Christmas
(d) Lucas Burch

2. Who is Lena's brother?
(a) McKenzie
(b) Matthew
(c) McKinley
(d) Michael

3. Byron tells Hightower that a ______________ discovered the fire at the Burden place yesterday morning.
(a) traveling salesman
(b) doctor
(c) countryman
(d) lawyer

4. What happens after Byron approaches Brown near the railroad tracks?
(a) The two men struggle and Brown leaps onto a passing train.
(b) Brown agrees to return to town and marry Lena.
(c) Byron pays Brown to leave town.
(d) The two men struggle and Byron falls onto the train tracks.

5. Who makes plans to adopt Christmas and take him away from the orphanage?
(a) Mr. and Mrs. McEachern
(b) Miss Burden
(c) The janitor
(d) Rev. Hightower

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hightower learn when he returns to town?

2. Why has Lena left Doane's Mill?

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

4. Instead of leaving town like the sheriff thinks he will do, what does Byron do that night?

5. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?

(see the answer key)

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