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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Christmas do after he awakens?
(a) He decides to just spend the day daydreaming at the stream.
(b) He cooks the fish he has caught.
(c) He writes some letters that he has been been delaying.
(d) He goes to a small store nearby to buy food for breakfast.

3. How does Mr. McEachern punish Christmas in the stable
(a) He makes him clean out the stalls.
(b) He makes him do heavy lifting.
(c) He whips him with a heavy strap multiple times.
(d) He berates him verbally.

4. Where does Christmas go when he escapes from jail and where he is eventually killed?
(a) Hightower's house
(b) Miss Burden's house
(c) The sawmill
(d) The restaurant

5. The baby's first cry also has a strong emotional release for Byron. Why?
(a) The child will be another bastard born in a difficult time in the South.
(b) Byron's former wife had died during childbirth.
(c) He realizes that he has been in denial that Lena has borne another man's child.
(d) He knows that he has no way of repaying Hightower for his kindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hightower think he let down the people of Jefferson?

2. What does Bobbie call Christmas?

3. Who moves into the cabin with Christmas?

4. In the morning, Christmas returns to the cabin and dresses in _____________________.

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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