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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why had Hightower wanted to come to Jefferson originally?
(a) Because he had an old college friend living there
(b) Because his grandfather had been killed there during the Civil War
(c) Because it had a nice rectory
(d) Because he liked small towns

2. What does Christmas do when he leaves the house?
(a) He goes back home to ask for forgiveness.
(b) He asks his stepmother for more money.
(c) He runs and runs for fifteen years.
(d) He goes to the sheriff's office to confess to killing McEachern.

3. What does Christmas do with the answer to #77?
(a) He refuses the offering.
(b) He makes her set it outside the door.
(c) He accepts the gesture from Mrs. McEachern.
(d) He throws it on the floor.

4. Who is Bobbie?
(a) Bobbie is Mrs. McEachern's sister.
(b) Bobbie is the name Christmas gives his new heifer.
(c) Bobbie is a waitress Christmas meets at a rundown restaurant.
(d) Bobbie is the choir leader at church.

5. What does Mr. McEachern want Christmas to do?
(a) Chop more wood for the house
(b) Become a better fisherman
(c) Memorize his catechism studies
(d) Learn how to farm

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days pass before Christmas is returned to the orphanage?

2. What happens to Hightower after the delivery of the baby?

3. Joe begins to work very hard at the farm and soon Mr. McEachern gives him a new _________.

4. What is Christmas' plan?

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

(see the answer key)

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