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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. McEachern bring Christmas after Mr. McEachern leaves?
(a) A tray of food
(b) A Bible
(c) Some clean clothes
(d) Some hot chocolate

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

3. What does the deputy tell the sheriff about Lena?
(a) That Joe Brown is also Lucas Burch and the father of Lena's unborn child.
(b) That Lucas Burch is trying to find Lena.
(c) That Lena has asked the deputy to help her find Lucas Burch.
(d) That Lena is nothing but a troublemaker and should be run out of town.

4. What does Hightower understand when he hears the choir's songs emanating from his old church?
(a) That the organ desperately needs tuning
(b) That he does not like the new songs he hears
(c) That the songs are chosen for specific reasons
(d) That the townspeople plan on crucifying Christmas

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the janitor take Christmas?

2. What does Joe Brown do after the murder?

3. What does Christmas do when he earns some more money?

4. Who has been living in the cabin on the Burden property?

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

(see the answer key)

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